For this assignment, you will be exploring the use of literary devices/elements within the short stories and poems you have read thus far in the course. Your goal is to choose one of the following literary devices or elements to analyze in three different works (poems or short stories). You will provide quoted examples of the literary and then example how it contributes and connects to the work. For example: You may choose irony as your device. Choose three different works that use strong irony. Don’t just note that it was used. Discuss how and why the author used it. Does irony help describe a character and make him more genuine to the reader? Does the device help create mood or tone for the work so the reader knows how to respond? Does the use of irony help create rising action or resolution? Directions: Complete the questions below and then write a well-developed paragraph using the information you have collected in the chart. Choose ONE of the following literary devices/elements for your assignment: Simile Metaphor Irony Setting Symbolism Point of View Name your literary device/element. Define your literary device/element. List the three different works and authors that you will use to explore literary element/device listed in number one. First work/ author: Second work/author: Third work/author: Provide three quoted lines (textual support) that is an example of the literary device/element. The quote must have a signaling phrase phrase! (Don’t forget to follow with the in-text citation to show which work the quote is found.) Example: According the narrator, “She just sits and waits, wondering if her knight will ever return” (Jones 22). Quote from first work: Quote from second work: Quote from third work: In the space below, write a well-developed paragraph that includes the information questions 1-4 and explain your quoted examples and how the device/element was used in the works listed. Be sure you include the short story names and authors. ••• The stories we have read this past semester are “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. •••
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