The Lost Daughter Literary Elements

The Lost Daughter Literary Elements

Genre

Novel

Setting and Context

Set in Leda’s rented apartment, Italy

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative (Written in Leda’s point of view)

Tone and Mood

Fearful and reflective

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is Leda.

Major Conflict

There is a conflict between Leda’s past and the present.

Climax

The climax comes when Elda finds the lost daughter of a Neapolitan family.

Foreshadowing

Leda's divorce from her husband was foreshadowed by her nasty relationship with her biological mother.

Understatement

The powerful influence of memories is understated in the text.

Allusions

The story alludes to Leda's past and how it conflicts with her present.

Imagery

Sight imagery is depicted to readers when the author describes the dressed doll.

Paradox

The main paradox is that after Lead rents an apartment at the seashore to concentrate on her writing and reading, instead, she goes back to the memories she is trying to run away from.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The doll is used as a metonymy for flashback

Personification

The doll Nani is personified.

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