The Business of Fancydancing Literary Elements

The Business of Fancydancing Literary Elements

Genre

Fictional poetry

Setting and Context

Western Washington State, 1900

Narrator and Point of View

Seymour Polatkin

Tone and Mood

Brutally honest, educational

Protagonist and Antagonist

Protagonist: Seymour Polatkin; Antagonist: Cultural assimilation

Major Conflict

Seymour has to confront his past in the Spokane Reservation when his friend dies.

Climax

When Seymour embraces who he is, thanks to what he has gone through in his life.

Foreshadowing

The poetry Seymour writes foreshadows the life Seymour will come back to, once he returns to the reservation.

Understatement

The poetry Seymour writes is understated, as it is one of the reasons he becomes pushed away by his people.

Allusions

The reader might have allusions to other communities where the main character has two different personas due to difference in culture.

Imagery

The image of Seymout returning because the death of his friend is very strong, because it shows that he indeed loved him, even though he was a part of his old life.

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

There might be drawn a parallel line between Seymour's life before and after he left the reservation, as well as when he returns back, as the reader can see the difference Seymour has in personality and attitude.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

N/A

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