Discuss and analyze Edwidge Danticat’s use of suspense, foreshadowing, and irony in her short story A Wall of Fire Rising. Include a minimum of three specific quotes from the story to support each of the elements you are discussing. (This means you would have three quotes to support suspense, three quotes to support foreshadowing, and three quotes to support irony.) Do not simply retell the events of the story; instead, focus on two or three specific scenes to show how Danticat uses each element to make the story come to life.
1. Use MLA format. Parenthetical information and a separate Works Cited page are required.
2. Your essay should have a unique title, a thesis statement, at least three body paragraphs, as well as a conclusion. Use only the literary devices mentioned above in the writing of your essay.
3. Required length: 1000 words–approximately 4-5 double-spaced pages.
Paper is properly formatted and conforms to MLA guidelines. (10)
Standard introductory paragraph with a clear thesis statement (10)
Minimal errors in grammar and mechanics. (grammar refers to the parts of speech; mechanics refers to the rules of written language, such as capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. (20)
All supporting paragraphs in the body of the paper are focused on developing and defending the thesis statement in the paper’s introduction (20)
Paper incorporates the necessary literary devices required by the prompt (placed in boldface the first time they appear), and the student writer demonstrates the author’s use of these devices in developing the story. (30)
Standard concluding paragraph that serves to briefly summarize the paper and ties up any loose ends. (Hint—this is NOT a place to introduce anything new in your argument—it is simply an end to your paper. It might be helpful to think of your introductory and concluding paragraphs as if they were bookends on either side of the larger argument (the body of the paper. (10)