The Use of Literary Devices in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut used many literary devices in his novel Slaughterhouse-five. These different devices serve to carry his varying themes through the story. He uses a system of two narratives that separates himself from the story, also there is the repetition of certain phrases which cycle you through the tale. A major device that is used is non-linear time, which emphasizes Vonneguts cylindrical theories. Within Slaughterhouse-five …showed first 75 words of 640 total…

…showed last 75 words of 640 total…writing a war story, yet that is what he ended up with. A novel telling of the ghastliness of war, or as Mrs. O’hare would like it to be called, “the children’s crusade” (Vonnegut) Works Cited Phillips, Leslie. So It Goes. 28 October 1999 http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/4953/kv_sh5.html Vit, Marek. The Themes of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. 28 October 1999 http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/4953/themes.html Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five. New York: Dell. 1969.