Literary Techniques Life of Pi

flashback:
The whole story is a flashback  told by Francis Adirubasamy who is trying to get another man to believe in God.
genre:
Pi's story is fictional one, but it never the less speaks truths about our "real world." Storytelling is not meant to entertain it is meant to bring us out of our mundane lives and teach about the world around us.
irony:
The dominant factor in the story reveals itself as ironic because Pi manages to prove to Richard Parker that he is the more alpha of the two, when obviously the normal situation would be Pi is not able to assert dominance and is therefore eaten.
synesthesia:  
"I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water... or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders on such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it." pg 15
motif: 
A re-occurring concept is the fact that Pi keeps telling us in the first 100 pages that all animals are creatures of habit, humans too. Like Bilbo we are comfortable in our hobbit holes. Routines never change and when they do we get horribly perturbed. 
symbol:
The color orange is a re-occurring color. The tiger, the orange whistle on Pi's life jacket, and on page 92, Pi's daughter is holding an orange cat.
narrative: 
Francis Adirubasamy and the author, Yann Martel are putting together a collection of events which tell a story.
narrator:
Parts 1 and 2 of the book is narrated by Piscine and the last section is told by Pi, the author and two other people.
personification:
Animals are given human traits in this story or are humans given animal traits?
protagonist:
Piscine Molitor Patel also known as Pi. He was on the boat for 227 days.
dialogue:
When Pi speaks to other characters he uses dialogue.
didactic:
This book incorporates Hinduism, Christianity, and Muslim practices. It informs you about all of these religions and how Pi came to want to be all three.
allusion:
there were many in Life of Pi some of which included Robinson Crusoe and Sir Conan Doyle books.
conflict:
The conflict of the story begins when the ship Pi and his family are on, the Tsimtsum, sinks. Then Pi spends 227 days on a small boat with a 3 year old tiger.
stream of consciousnesses:
The author Yann Martel jumps into the story sometimes, as it is, he is retelling it to the reader.
foil:
Pi's older brother Ravi is his foil. Ravi likes sports and never paid attention to religion, whereas Pi was the opposite.
foreshadowing:
In the scene where we see Pi and his daughter we know that Pi will live through his ordeal with no fatal damage.
resolution:
Pi lives, but the author leaves us wondering about what really happened. Were the animals animals or humans?
round character:
Pi changes throughout the book experimenting with religions and then moving, loosing his family, and the mental strain of being on a boat with a tiger makes Pi a changed character by story's end.
pathos:
Many chapters are of Pi reminiscing about life, death, religion, and human nature. I found myself becoming engrossed in somethings Pi would comment on.