Write an extended analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits.” Link for short story is below Focus on Literary Devices Comparison between other stories What images do you notice? Remember that imagery appeals to one or more of the fives senses, not just your eyes. The other four are taste, touch, hearing, and smell. What patterns of sound do you notice? Look for long vowel sounds, consonants surrounding long vowel sounds, and multisyllabic words. Look for repeated vowel sounds (assonance) and repeated consonant sounds (alliteration). For poetry, do you notice any patterns of rhyme? For poetry, look for metrical patterns, making note of stressed syllables in particular. How does the poem look on the page? Are the line lengths similar? Are they short or long or somewhere in between? Does the poem have sections that are set off by double line breaks? How would you characterize the register of the poem or passage? For our purposes, register refers to the degree of formality or informality in a poems grammar, diction (word choice), and syntax (sentence structure). These are just ideas and you do not have to use these if you find better ones.
