“God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.” EnoughUseLeavingNovelistsDevicesTrapsRhymeClueForeshadowingAlliterationLiterary DevicesAssonance Book:Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life Source: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life
“Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.” EndsSometimesNovelLeavingClueGreat Novels Book:Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life Source: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life