For school I have to read Pride and Prejudice. My teacher gave us an assignment where we have to find a different literary element every couple of chapters. I have been searching for a while now and can't seem to find anything. It has to be between chapters 44 and 50 and can be anything from a simile to imagery. Any and all help is appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance!
Hmmmmmm.
Try searching Pride and Prejudice in Wikipedia. It seems to show a lot of facts, timelines, etc.
I'm not sure I understand the assignment. Are you to find different ways of describing or alluding to a specific situation, as in Elizabeth's reactions to Mr. Darcy? Or just find various literary devices?
I've already tried that. I have been searching through the internet and there isn't really anything out their pertaining to this. I'm reading through the book right now and can't seem to find anything yet.
I am just suppose to find various literary devices in the book.
Do you know what you're looking for? Do you know what a simile is, or a metaphor, and so on?
Yes I know what all of those are, I am having a hard time finding any. Everyone says they are throughout the book, but every time I try to look for one I cannot find any.
It' been a long time since I read the novel. Let me get it down off my shelves and take a look. I'll get back to you in a few minutes, okay? I asked if you know what you're looking for because some may not. Just for the heck of it, here's a website that may help you:
http://www.literary-devices.com
But I will get back to you and see if I can get you started.
Thank you so much!!! I'll take a look at the website!
Okay. I'm back. I find several in reading just a few pages in chapter 47 (you said between 44 and 50). The pagination in your book is undoubtedly different than mine, but take a look at the dinner table scene after Elizabeth and the Gardiners have returned to Longbourne. Mary whispers to Elizabeth about their "wounded bosoms." This is a metaphor. They are not literally wounded as in knife wounds or gunshots!
Earlier, as Elizabeth talks with the Gardiners in the carriage, she says all the girls were "out of their senses" over Wickham. That is hyperbole. It may have been, and still is, a common colloquialism, but the girls have not lost their senses in a literal sense, but are acting, perhaps, without common sense.
Those are the kinds of things to look for in Austin. I can't point them all out to you, but I hope this helps get you started. Feel free to post other questions and I'll try to help. :)