Stylistic Devices in the Book of Ursula Moray Williams "Gobbolino, the Witch’s Cat"

*Irony as such probably is not meant to be seen, reading this story about Gobbolino, because this children’s book. But never the less dramatic irony in this work may appear, when story is read by adults. In dramatic irony, the audience is more aware than the characters in a work, and what the characters say takes on a new significance to the audience. This Irony appears in every chapter of this book. For example – the sailors send Gobbolino about his business because the cat „puts a jinx on them”, but the fact is that the Gobbolino is only the one that saved their life during the big storm. They don’t realize and they don’t know that Gobbolino is the one who helps them. Also adventures of Gobbolino in orphanage can be meant as an example – they threw Gobbolino out because of the „bane”, as if the cat would make the children unhappy, but the truth was that he was the only one who helped little children to survive and to retain the smile on children’s faces.…