Anatomy of Criticism

Anatomy of Criticism Literary Elements

Genre

Non-fiction

Setting and Context

Western literature

Narrator and Point of View

Northrop Frye

Tone and Mood

Protagonist and Antagonist

Major Conflict

Climax

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification