Overview of all literary devices, conflicts and themes
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Course
Literature 1 (OAENPFLIT120)
Institution
Hogeschool Utrecht (HU)
All descriptions and explanations of the literary devices used in Literature 1 during the 2021/2022 academic year, as well as an overview of all possible conflicts and themes of the literature used. With the help of these notes, I got an 8 for the exam.
person – person external
The Sniper (1923) (sniper-sniper)
(Repulicans-Catholics) War is divisive and tears
families apart, even putting
person – self internal brother against brother.
(focused, acceptance of and
agreement with the civil war
– hating the war)
person – person external
The Story of an Hour (1894) (husband – wife)
person – society external
(Mrs. Mallard – society’s rules Marriage and dependence on a
and view of (un)married husband can be stifling, even
woman) deadly, to a wife.
person – self internal
(conflicted feelings about
husband’s death)
person – person external
In the South (2009) (Senior – Junior who never
agree on anything)
person – self internal
(Senior’s feelings and denial
of those feelings; i.e. jealous of
D’Mello)
person – nature internal
(bodies are getting older and Death doesn’t distinguish based
weaker but their minds are on age nor social status in life.
still bright and sharp)
Life exists in balance; water –
person – nature external fire, old – young, life – death.
(tsunami that hit the world
and brought death)
person – fate internal
(Senior wanting death, death
not wanting him)
person – self internal
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) (narrator Jane is conflicted,
feeling guilty for having a
lively imagination, for
wanting to write but told not Oppression of women’s intellect
to while she feels it would leads to or worsens mental
help her express herself illness.
which she can’t do to her
husband) Depression can trap you.
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