Literary Devices
This lit device occurs when a sentence continues without a pause beyond the end of a line poetry.
What is enjambment?
This really great author used satire to criticize the upper classes of Victorian society.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
A young man goes to see a play and falls in "love" with the lead actress.
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
This essay requires a MOTWAW in the thesis.
What is a Q3?
"For you, a thousand times over."
Who is Hassan?
OR
Who is Amir?
This lit device encompasses all of an author's word choices in a given piece.
What is diction?
This really great author was born in Kabul in 1965 and immigrated to America as a teen.
Who is Khaled Hosseini?
The ambiguous ending of this story could either refer to the complete mental breakdown or the suicide of the protagonist.
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
These two essays require you to discuss literary devices as they relate to the theme of a piece.
What are Q1 and Q2?
"The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now—inside your daddy's house—is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time."
Who is Arnold Friend?
This lit device refers to an author's choice of how to form sentences and employ grammatical structures for effect.
What is syntax?
This really great author was the original goth girl, who ran off with a married man at 16 and kept his heart in a jar when he died. She also wrote the first sci-fi novel.
In this story, a couple drink at a bar while discussing a delicate situation.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants"?
This essay specifically tells you to avoid plot summary.
What is a Q3?
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."
Who is Lord Henry Wotton?
Antimetabole, or the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse order, was used heavily by this author.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
This really great author only has one name. He wrote about hubris and the dangers of running from fate.
Who is Sophocles?
Christening plays a prominent role in this work.
These essays should be written in literary present tense.
What are ALL OF THEM?
"I'm 27 years old, I've no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I'm frightened."
Who is Charlotte Lucas?
This excerpt from "The Dance" includes an example of this sound-based lit device:
"In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around...(round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they impound)"
What is assonance?
What is internal rhyme?
This really great author wrote "A Rose for Emily" and other works set in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi.
Who is William Faulkner?
In this story, a woman finds out her husband is dead and rejoices.
What is "The Story of an Hour"?
This essay gives you a poem and asks you to analyze it.
What is a Q1?
“Yes. Everything tastes like licorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.”
Who is girl?