My question is in the story "young goodman brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Question

can someone give me an example of a literary device and how the author used it. I have to come up with at least nine of them but I can't start because i am not understanding. I looked up literary device but i am not seeing how am suppost to explain it. If some can show me the first one so i can see that will really help to get me going.

There are many instances of foreshadowing and irony all through this story.

Irony is when you (or the character) expect one thing, but something quite different actually happens.
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/Literary.Terms.2.html#Irony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

Foreshadowing is when the author provides hints at what is to come in the story.
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/Literary.Terms.2.html#Foreshadowing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadowing

Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. In addition to the excellent sites you already have, you might like to bookmark (save) the following while you are studying literature:

1. http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_N.html

2. http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/writerms.htm

3. http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/Literary.Terms.Menu.html

P.S. Here is a site about the symbolism in this piece of literature:

http://www.everything4me.netfirms.com/symbolism01.htm