Part 1: Structure. Pocket: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Crossed sentence: John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address
Parallelism: Li-Young Lee, "from Blossoms"
Reversed sentences: Yoda, Star Wars
Surprise: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Questions: Judy Blume, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Part II: Diction. Valuable verbs: Red Smith, "Dizzy Dean's Day"
Tone: Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery"
Word shifts: James Joyce, Ulysses
Coinage: Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Part III: Sound. Onomatopoeia: Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
Matching Sounds: Marting Espada, "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
Repetition: Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Part IV: Connection/Comparison. First person: J.D.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Second person: Lorrie Moore, "A Kid's Guide to Divorce"
Contrast: Neil Armstrong, First Words on the Moon
Negativity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Creative descriptions: Barbara Kingsolver, "Where it Begins"
Synesthesia: Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
Part V: Extremes. Marathon sentences: Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham jail"
Simplicity: Ann Beattie, "Learning to Fall"
Contradiction: Margaret Atwood, "Orphan Stories"
Time: Karen Salyer McElmurray, "Consider the Houses"
Impossibility: Toni Morrison, Beloved
Visual Presentation: Nicky Enright, What on Earth (have you done)?
