The Second Sex

The Second Sex Literary Elements

Genre

Non-fiction

Setting and Context

France, 1949

Narrator and Point of View

Third person

Tone and Mood

Critical/Philosophical/Ironic

Protagonist and Antagonist

Major Conflict

Climax

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification

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