Best Seller Literary Elements

Best Seller Literary Elements

Genre

Short story

Setting and Context

London in the 1930s.

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

The tone is romantic; the mood is tense.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Egbert is the protagonist; Evangeline is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the novel occurs when Egbert manages to fall in love with Evangeline while he is supposed to be recovering.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when the couple breaks up and part ways, just like in the novel that Evangeline is writing.

Foreshadowing

The break down of Evangeline is foreshadowed by the fact that she meets Egbert again.

Understatement

The role of love is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to the romantic relationship between a literary critic and a novelist.

Imagery

The imagery of carefully crafted words s present in the novel.

Paradox

The fact that Egbert is meant to be recovering, yet falls in love is an example of paradox in the story.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The novel Evangeline has written is a metonym for their relationship.

Personification

N/A

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