Category: Poetry
1. Use of significant words: strong, harsh words to describe a wild and rugged scene, _thunder-splintered_, _huge_, etc.; vivid and color words to describe glowing beauty, _gleaming_, _living gold_, etc. 2. Use of onomatopœia. 3. Order in arrangement of details. Stanza XI, etc...
1. Morning. a. Contrast between this and that in Canto III. b. Reason for difference. 2. The guard room. a. Point of view. b. Choice of details. 3. The dungeon of romance. 4. Th...
1. CANTO I.1. Use of significant words: strong, harsh words to describe a wild and rugged scene, _thunder-splintered_, _huge_, etc.; vivid and color words to describe glowing beauty, _glea...
3. CANTO III.1. Materials used. a. For the fire. b. For the cross. 2. Brian. a. Appearance. b. Parentage. c. Mode of life. d. Supernatural powers. 3. The curses. 4. Responses to the curses....
4. CANTO IV.1. The climax; the height of Ellen's misfortunes. 2. Hints of a fortunate outcome for Ellen. 3. Introduction of means for unraveling the plot. a. The gift of the ring. 4. Hints...
2. CANTO II.1. Method of telling what is necessary for reader to know of preceding events, or exposition. a. Story of the Douglases. b. Story of Roderick Dhu. 2. Introduction of minor plot....
5. CANTO V.