So Much to Tell You Literary Elements

So Much to Tell You Literary Elements

Genre

Young adult fiction

Setting and Context

Australia in an unspecified time period

Narrator and Point of View

Marina narrates the novel through her first-person diary.

Tone and Mood

The tone is depressing; the mood is of hope and optimism.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Marina is the protagonist; her personal trauma is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the novel occurs when Marina is the subject of an acid attack from her own father, although it was intended to be thrown at her mother.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when Marina first begins her diary after Mr Lindell encourages his class to all make journals.

Foreshadowing

The healing of Marina is foreshadowed by the fact that she begins to talk about her emotions.

Understatement

The role that parents play on childhood development is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to the ability for someone to overcome their past and any of their previous barriers.

Imagery

The imagery of Marina's traumatic suffering is present in the novel.

Paradox

The fact that Marina's father threw acid in her face, when he should be protecting her is an example of paradox in the story.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The acid is a metonym for the trauma experienced by every single reader.

Personification

N/A

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