Litrary devices
Allegory: an allegory is a narrative that has a second meaning beneath it's surface. The story may have its own purpose, but the author's lies behind ulterior meaning.
Allusion a reference to a person, a place or event, or literary work that the writer expects the reader to recognize.
Analogy: A comparison between thing that are similar in a number of way.
Apostrophe: A figure of speech in which an absent or a dead person, an abstract quality, or something non human is addressed directly.
Assonance: the close repetition of vowel sounds
Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. Lines don't rhyme
Cacophony: Bad sounding. The opposite of euphony
Denotation the literary or dictionary meaning of a word
Diction writer choice of words particularly for clarity.
Dissonance: harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds. Gas! Gas! Quick boys!
lyric: a song to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre
Metaphor: carry something across. he was a peacock
Extended metaphor: a metaphor that extend through a poem.
Mood: what I feel
onomatopoeia: the use of words formed or sounding like what they signify. the moan of doves in immemorial elms
Paradox: an apparently untrue or self-contradictory statement or circumstance that proves true upon reflection.
Personification: giving object human qualities
Rhyme: the repetition of sounds in two or more words that appear closer to each other in the poem.
Rhythm: the arrangement of stressed or unstressed syllables into a pattern
Simile: a explicit form of metaphor. Like, as, then.
satire: any literature that ridicules vices and follies
vivification: a figure of speech closely related to personification, in which life, but not human life is attributed to an inanimate object.

In the short story "the painted door" Ross suggests that the pure hearted and innocent are often hurt and betrayed by the manipulation of those closest to them, shows through the contrast of john's love to an and Stevens cruelty to her. Ann, married to john for seven years, became bored of "trying to talk with a an who never talked." She married a man who was shy and quiet. Steven in contrast was an out going man who never was confident flittering with women. Steven spoke with " a kind of mockery even, that made her draw away quickly, a busy herself", to distract from his charm. John and Steven are very different in regards to the treatment of Ann. Even in "the wildest, coldest nights [John] always came", even if it would risk his life. John was caring and would do anything, to serve her, prove his devotion and fidelity". While john praised Ann, Steven was selfish and manipulating to her. He saw Ann a no more then a woman he could take advantage of. Steven was "erect, tall, square-shouldered", so he took advantage of the fact Ann found him good looking and different from Johns "thickset, heavy-yowled" appearance. Later in the story, it's clear that John resembles the fire and Steven the cold in their personalities and John travels many miles and works long and hard to provide for his wife, just as the fire provides warmth and keep Ann alive. Steven being a cold-hearted man truly does put out the fire of the marriage and in john. John kill himself by going into the cold resembling Steven killing the only thing John loves, his marriage. "It is the cold that depresses" and ends lives. Therefore, innocent and caring people are wrongfully, punished by the corrupted people closet to them.