Anovel focuses on the lives of emily and her great-great-grandmother mirna. the story switches back and forth between the story of mirna, a farmer's wife in virginia who must run the farm by herself when her husband goes off to fight in the civil war, and emily, a young newlywed who takes a job at a factory to support herself while her husband is away fighting in world war ii. which literary device is used in the novel? a. parallel plots b. foreshadowing c. anticlimax d. contrivance

A. Parallel plots

The two women are both fending for themselves while their husbands are away fighting a war. Same plot but in a different time.

A. Parallel plots

Explanation:

The novel unfolds two stories or plots in a parallel way and these two are linked by a common character and the same theme . The two plots are: Mirna's past and Emily's present. Mirna is the common character between the two plots; she is Emily's grandmother. The common theme is the fact that both women had to face economic hardhip by themselves while their husbands were in the war. In Mirna's case her husband fought in the Civil War; and in Emily's case her husband fought in  WWII.

dramatic irony occurs when the reader/audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does. the one main effect is that it gives the reader a sense of superiority, or detached superiority. the reader not only seemingly discovers what is revealed, but feels superior for doing so.