Literary devices

Personification-"The wave that came upon me again buried me twenty or thirty feet deep in it own body"(45)
Foreshadowing-"Without asking God's blessing, or my father's; without any consideration of circumstances or consequences... I went on the ship bound for London"(9)

"I will never, never leave thee nor forsake thee"(112)

Biblical Allusion- "I question whether Solomon ever had such a one for a building of the temple of Jerusalem"(125)

Simile- "He ate it like a ravenous wolf"(187)

Imagery-"My heart sunk within me at the horror of the spectacle"(201)