Identical Literary Elements

Identical Literary Elements

Genre

Young adult

Setting and Context

The suburbs of a modern-day town in the United States.

Narrator and Point of View

The story is told from the alternating perspectives of twin sisters, Kaeleigh and Raeanne.

Tone and Mood

The tone is somber, introspective, and often intense. The mood is dark and heavy.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Kaeleigh is the primary protagonist; her father is the primary antagonist.

Major Conflict

The story revolves around the twin's struggles to wrestle with and overcome their trauma.

Climax

When it is revealed that Kaeleigh is suffering from dissociative identity disorder because of her father's abuse.

Foreshadowing

There is subtle foreshadowing to Raeanne not being real and Kaeleigh having dissociative identity disorder before it is revealed at the end of the novel.

Understatement

Initially, the extent of the twins father's culpability in their mental health struggles is understated in the novel.

Allusions

There are allusions scattered throughout the novel to politics and popular culture.

Imagery

The novel includes powerful imagery of drugs and alcohol, which are used to underscore the internal turmoil of the twins and their mother.

Paradox

Although Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical twins and similar in many ways and deal with much of the same kind of trauma, their internal struggles, experiences, and ways of coping differ significantly.

Parallelism

n/a

Metonymy and Synecdoche

n/a

Personification

The girl's fathers car accident is personified in the novel and given human-like characteristics.

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