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zoel222
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High School - 12th Grade

Discuss the fictional elements that Louisa May Alcott uses in her narrative Hospital Sketches

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Posted by zoel222 on Thursday October 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM and tagged with fictional elements, hospital sketches, literature, louisa may alcott, narrative.

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  1. jabraeq
    jabraeq Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    Fictional elements that Alcott uses include dialogue, plot elements, and the persona of a narrator. As the narrator, Alcott adopts the persona of "Nurse Periwinkle," sometimes talking about herself in the thired person. Plot elements include the arrangement of the events of the night in a plot curve, with John's death as the climax. In another plot element, a flashback tells about her first meeting with john. The most prominent fictional element is dialogue. Their dialogue helps to characterize the patients, the doctor, and Alcott herself. Ther dialogue also helps to move the story along.

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    Posted by jabraeq on Thursday December 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM