literary Analysis on "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin

Please define and provide an example for the following literary terms:

Allusion: reference(s) to outside literary text(s).

EX: biblical allusion

Diction: word choice

EX: using the word “battered” versus “beat-up”

Figure of Speech:

EX: hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, and understatement

Metaphor: a comparison of two things that does not use “like” or “as”

EX: My friend Trey is such a pig.

Simile: a comparison using “like” or “as”

EX: Her makeup was like Kim Kardashian’s.

Personification: to give human characteristics to non-living things

EX: The willow wept and waved in the wind as I walked away.

(^this is also ALLITERATION.)

Imagery: where a piece of text is invoking one or more of your 5 SENSES:

(hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight).

Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are near one

another in a sentence.

Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in words that are next to one another in the sentence.

Onomatopoeia: BAM! Words that are sounds. SMACK!

Stanza: the “paragraphs” in the poem.

For a further guide on literary devices, please see the following website:

http://literary-devices.com/