Essay Formatting
Authors by Short Stories
Author by Geography
Short Stories by First Line
Literary Devices
100

This is what TEAL stands for

Topic Sentence

Evidence

Analysis

Link

100

He wrote "The Pedestrian"

Ray Bradbury

100

The neighborhood of this story is set approximately 7 blocks north of Dwight Main Campus

"Sonny's Blues"

100

"Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap"

"Girl"

100

A specific reference to something real outside of the text - usually Biblical, literary, or historical

Allusion

200

This is how you format a novel

Italics

200

He wrote "Sonny's Blues"

James Baldwin
200

See Image 1

"Eveline"

200

"To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do."

"The Pedestrian"

200

Specific description based on qualities that can be observed by the five senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, sound)

Imagery

300
This is the alternative to formatting a novel in italics

Underlining

300

He is the only author we've read from the Soviet Union

Isaac Babel

300

See Image 2

"In the Basement"

300

"She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue."

"Eveline"

300

This point of view is told from "your" perspective.

Second Person

400

This is how you cite a quote properly

(Author pg#).

400

These are the three female authors we've read so far

Tillie Olsen, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Jamaica Kincaid

400

See Image 3

"Girl"

400

"Everything was perfectly swell..."

"2BR02B"

400

The intentional repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences or lines in a text

Anaphora

500

This is how you format short stories

Quotation Marks

500

His name comes from a German river called the Vonne

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

500

This story takes place at Mount Baker

"Powder"

500

"The North Crawford Mask and Wig Club, an amateur theatrical society I belong to, voted to do Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire for the spring play."

"Who Am I This Time?"

500

An apparently self-contradicting statement that gets at a deeper truth

Paradox

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