Literary_Techniques_In_“We_Real_Cool“

Literary Techniques In “We Real Cool“ Literary Techniques in “We Real Cool” Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary techniques such as dialect, ironic point of view, and syntax to accentuate the theme and persona in “We Real Cool.” The speaker, or persona, in “We Real Cool” has a black dialect. This dialect is used to characterize the group of pool players at the Golden Shovel. In the phrase “We real cool,” (1) the verb is omitted, which accentuates the pool players’ lack of education. The pool players’ view of themselves and their actions differs from that of Gwendolyn Brooks. This ironic point of view is used to convey that although the pool players believe they are living it up, their lives are actually going nowhere. If Gwendolyn Brooks felt the same pool, real, cool, view, techniques, players’, players, literary, gwendolyn, dialect, brooks, theme, syntax, stands, reader, point, poem, persona, lives, ironic, alone, words, word, way, verb, unity, understood, understand, togetherness, though, themselves, speaker, soon, shovel, senses