Brian Keenan uses a variety of linguistic and literary devices in An Evil Cradling to convey his experience of his time spent in solitary confinement. Some of the devices I will be looking at are; simile, metaphor, assonance, alliteration, personification and oxymoron. The two passages I will be comparing in this essay are pg. 62 -70, from the chapter entitled 'Into the Dark' from 'Come now into...' to '...explain them to myself' and pg. 73 -78 from chapter entitled 'Music' from 'My days...' to '...forcing me to be.'
In 'Into the Dark' Keenan employs various coping strategies to prevent h…
