This Is How You Lose Her Literary Elements

This Is How You Lose Her Literary Elements

Genre

Short stories

Setting and Context

The book is written in the context of immigrants.

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Paradoxical, Depressing, Anxious

Protagonist and Antagonist

Yunior is the main character.

Major Conflict

The major conflict is when Yunior cheats on his girlfriend with Cassandra. His girlfriend changes behavior and distances herself from him, and he fears that he might lose her.

Climax

The climax is when Rafa manages to kiss Nilda and officially makes her his girlfriend.

Foreshadowing

Yunior’s cheating on his first girlfriend foreshadows his troublesome romantic relationships in later years.

Understatement

Same sex relationships are understated.

Allusions

Throughout the book, romantic relationships are alluded to.

Imagery

The imagery of sexual relationships dominate the text.

Paradox

The main paradox is that the novel positively paints hearsay.

Parallelism

The romantic relationships are parallel to each other in the entire novel.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Fear is personified as a monster.

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