"The War of the Worlds" is a science fiction novel written by H.G Wells and it was first published in 1898 in the United Kingdom. Although at first the novel was not very popular, it later became very well known and it has been not just widely read, but also interpreted in films. "The War of the Worlds" has become known as a representative of the genre of science fiction and it narrates the story of two narrators, who live in England, and who have to face the first-ever invasion from aliens, more specifically Martians, to the country. Although the general perception regarding this novel from the audience was the terror, horror and wonder of such a notion as an invasion from an alien species, especially from out-of-earth, the truth is that the deeper intention of Wells was rather to give a message about British imperialism and other political topics. In this particular passage, the narrator, who lives in Surrey and it is where the first wave of invasion takes places, expresses the terror that people are feeling at the arrival of a cilinders where the Martians are. The correct answer here is that the author uses paradox to express the terror that both the narrator and the people around him are feeling when they go to see what the cilinder contains.
The author of the passage used Paradox to create a sense of confusion.
This is used to refer to a literature device that is used to show contradiction. But in the contradiction, it is still plausible to find a little truth.
In the passage the author said that he ran madly, this would emphasize a hot race. But he still went on to say that he stumbled as he ran.
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