Belle Prater's Boy | Literary Qualities
White employs a number of literary techniques in the novel such as the structural techniques of foreshadowing, flashbacks, integrated motifs, and even interpolated stories, jokes, and puzzles. Other effects are achieved through her use of language, particularly figurative language and colloquialisms. Point of view enhances the reader's enjoyment of the story.
Although White skillfully foreshadows events, it may take a second reading (a mark of a good book) to realize how much she uses the technique. For example, Gypsy does not know why she cries when Granny talks about Amos, her...
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