Huh, and here it never even occurred to me to consider myself inadequate or inept as a writer because I am not an English major. It boils down to your ability to tell a story.

The thing to bear in mind is, you're not writing literary fiction, bb, you're writing genre fiction.

Nobody is going to deconstruct your work and inspect it for literary devices until your work becomes very popular and is considered groundbreaking or classic for genre fiction. AND EVEN THEN I find people will pick up far more meaning from your work than you consciously put in. =p