The Last Leaf Literary Devices

Explanation and Analysis:

"The Last Leaf" is written in the naturalistic style, which emphasized social conditions as the primary influence on human behavior, and strove to depict those environments with a degree of realism. Naturalistic fiction often depicts characters overcome by forces outside themselves. In "The Last Leaf," O. Henry uses personification as a key stylistic element in expressing the relationship between his characters and pneumonia, the most poignant outside threat to their safety. The figure of “Mr. Pneumonia” is invested with tremendous power; he is described at the story’s inception:

In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy finger.

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The Last Leaf: Style 1 key example