The first pages of Ellison's Invisible Man are packed with literary terms that give the "Invisible Man" an air of solitude and sadness. With words such as death, and the personification of this of this term, Ellison brings to life concepts that allude to the invisible man's situation. Also, rhyme helps to emphasize the contradictory idea of blindness vs. invisibility, "hibernation" vs. "animation" are two rhyming words that