Lists
1 Gallon of milk
3 lbs of sugar
4 cartons of eggs
1 pound of ground beef
grocery list
Identify device: There were no rooms at the inn. We drove farther until we found a hotel. It was raining heavily and we got soaked on the way to the door. Our socks stank of mildew. We ate dinner there and talked little.
Parataxis
Identify text: Mist is when the sky is tired of flight
and rests its soft machine on the ground:
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
He worked for the British empire
George Orwell
To Pack and Wear:
2 skirts
2 jerseys or leotards
1 pullover sweater
2 pair shoes
Joan Didion
Identify writer and piece: Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us in the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the waters of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and the harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm chair and confuse his ‘Rinse the mouth—rinse the mouth’ with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us—when we think of this and infinitely more, as we are so frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.”
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
Knausgaard, Spring
She wrote Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Identify theory and the writer who invented it:If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
iceberg theory, hemingway
Which literary device do all lists use ?
Parataxis
Lorrie Moore's "How To be A Writer" has sentences written in the style of?
A self-help book
This Soviet critic invented the term ostrangie
Viktor Shklovsky
He was a nationally ranked high-school tennis player
David Foster Wallace
This story featured the answer man
Who asked: Is there such a thing as a happy list in literature?
Brian Dillon
This story ends with the line: Hello
Forever Overhead
Pnin sees: “A curious basketlike net, somewhat like a glorified billiard pocket—lacking, however, a bottom—was suspended for some reason above the garage door.”
what is he really seeing?
what does this tell us about Pnin
Basketball net; he's an immigrant
She suffered from migraines
Didion
He invented the term Essayism
Brian Dillon
Verb form that repeats in Jamaica Kincaid?
Imperative
This device makes uses of coordinating conjunctions
Hypotaxis
Viktor Shklovksy based his theory on this Russian writer's work
Tolstoy
He fought in the Vietnam War
Tim O'Brien
This literary device makes use of omission
ellipsis