Death in Venice
Introduction + Context
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
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All Themes Art and the Artist Repression, the Mind, and the Self Beauty Youth, Age, and Time Travel, Geography, and Climate
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All Characters Gustav von Aschenbach The Red-Haired Man The Old Man The Gondolier Tadzio The Hotel Barber The Guitarist The Englishman
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All Symbols The Sea The Disease
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All Literary Devices Allusions Fallacy Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Imagery Irony Logos Metaphors Mood Satire Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone
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Death in Venice

by

Thomas Mann

Death in Venice Literary Devices

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