Post by kaylaanb on Nov 17, 2014 3:58:57 GMT
A literary nonfiction is when literary devices like imagery, figurative language, and point of view for example are used within a story based on real life events. He used this device rather than a full on report of the crime to engage the audience and I assume so the book could potentially sell as if it were like any other book. Some of the devices he used in the story were foreshadowing, much imagery when he described the scene of the murder, specifically how the victims were positioned and how they could have potentially been murdered. This is a good device to use because its a style of report because murder reports have to be detailed and so does any literary device in a novel. Also, as each different person was speaking throughout the book about the clutter family, and Dick and Perry, he put in their personal dialect and the way they would have spoken and written to give the audience a feel of the culture in Holcomb.
