5- Simile. Vivid similes describe Holden's experiences and feelings: “They made me cut it out anyway, though. They give guys the ax pretty quick at Pencey.”.

In this metaphor, Holden compares his desire to hold onto his and Phoebe's childhoods to a glass case in a museum that keeps precious memories safe.

The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, which is a literary genre of coming-of-age stories (stories about kids or teens growing up). Bildungsroman novels ...

The novel depicts the thematic strands of alienation and anger of a teenager against the superficial environment of American society.

Key devices include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and irony, which highlight Holden's sarcastic and exaggerated narrative style. Salinger also employs symbolism, ...

J.D. Salinger uses many literary devices throughout this novel. Three of them include: symbolism, irony, and motifs. Symbols are objects, characters, ...

Motif: a recurring symbol which takes on a figurative meaning. This novel has an innocence and rebellion motif. This motif can be traced back to Holden's belief ...

12 июл. 2019 г. · Through the use of symbolism, slang, and an unreliable narrator, Salinger explores themes of innocence vs. phoniness, alienation, and death. Innocence vs. Phoniness · Alienation · Death

It discusses devices such as foreshadowing, imagery, metaphor, symbolism, setting, irony, tone, point of view, theme, conflict, hyperbole, and simile. For ...