1. Allusions-The references to God and the devil throughout the story. "But what permanent good does it do us unless we make use of it for bringing souls to Father Below?"
2. Irony: How the morals of the demons differ from God's morals. "You will see the first among friends and lovers reunited on the eve of a holiday. Among adults some pretext in the way of Jokes is usually provided, but the facility with which the smallest witticisms produce laughter at such a time shows that they are not the real cause. What that real cause is we do not know. Something like it is expressed in much of that detestable art which the humans call Music, and something like it occurs in Heaven—a meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience, quite opaque to us. Laughter of this kind does us no good and should always be discouraged. Besides, the phenomenon is of itself disgusting and a direct insult to the realism, dignity, and austerity of Hell. (Lewis 53)"
3. Metaphors in how ScrewTape compares humans to certain things, like animals.
4. Allegory-the "Patient" represents a regular Christian and ScrewTape and WormWood who are trying to make the "Patient" fall.
5. The progression in the "Patient's" spiritual life
6. The unreliable narrator, ScrewTape, and his desire to teach his nephew to cause the man to sin
7. The reversed points of view between the demons and Christians.
8. Symbolism with the people the "Patient" interacts with.
9. The books motif showing how the demons constantly try to lure the "Patient" away form God.
10. Personification in how the different sins affect the patient.
Work Cited
Lewis, Clive S. The ScrewTape Letters. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. Print.
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