Literary Devices

• Symbol: There is a letter written by one of the Killers fathers. This note tells how the killer was a nice man and just needed someone to care for them.
  


• Personification: "Hawk wheeling in a white sky"(110) "Wasn't that a horses laugh?"(111)




• Alliteration: "Yet even upon this shadowed terrain sunlight had very lately sparkeled"(7)




• Flat character: Nancy Ewalt- the girl who found the Clutter Family dead.




• Round character: Perry Smith and Richard Hickock are two characters that fully develope in the story and are extremily important. They are the Clutter family killers.




• Hyperbole:"The propeller haden't stopped turning before he'd slapped a lawsuit on the pilot"(13). Here is an exxageration of an event that occured in the farm fields. It is clear that Mr.Clutter had not sued the pilot before he had landed in his field.