Literary Devices in “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence by Amber Fehr Froese https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23 en-us 2018-03-27 15:40:18 UTC 2026-01-02 05:00:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/40760438/af9e26aa599118bc80a71081d6769ffb/image.png Motivation user_1412797696 https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246562309 Paul is motivated in showing his mom that he is lucky. 
"This angered him somewhere, and made him want to compel her attention." (3)
"He went off by himself, vaguely, in a childish way, seeking for the clue to 'luck'." (3)
The thing or person that causes a character to do something.]]> 2018-03-27 15:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246562309 Direct characterization user_1412797696 https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246569384 Bassett is described towards the end of the story when Paul is dying. 
"The gardener, a shortish fellow with a little brown moustache and sharp little brown eyes, tiptoed into the room, touched his imaginary cap to Paul's mother, and stole to the bedside, staring with glittering, smallish eyes at the tossing, dying child." (16)
When the narrator directly describes the character’s personality.]]> 2018-03-27 16:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246569384 Internal Conflict user_1412797696 https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246572774 Paul has internal conflict within himself because he wants to prove to his mom that he is lucky.
"He wanted luck, he wanted it, he wanted it." (3)
Struggle within a character’s mind.]]> 2018-03-27 16:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246572774 Personification user_1412797696 https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246575936 The kid's toys and the house 'talk.'
'There must be more money.' (pg. 1)
An animal or object given human qualities.]]> 2018-03-27 16:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246575936 Paradox user_1412797696 https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246966035 Paul's eyes express the truth.
"...that had an uncanny cold fire in them..." (10)
A statement that seems contradictory or absurd, but that expresses the truth.]]> 2018-03-28 16:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246966035 Situational irony user_1412797696 https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246967370 2018-03-28 16:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/user_1412797696/icb4on4mlb23/wish/246967370