The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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The Lotteryby Shirley Jackson

• Literary Devices Notes

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Annotate

• To take notes as you read (mark up your text).
• Highlighting or underlining alone is NOT
  annotating.

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ANNOTATION KEY

• SSetting
• FForeshadowing
• IIrony
• SYMSymbolism
• T-WTheme Role of women
• T-RTheme Ritual without meaning
• T-MVTheme Mob Violence

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Setting (S)

• Time and place
• Underline, circle or highlight all references to
  setting AND write an S in the margin next to
  that passage.

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Foreshadowing (F)

• Hints in the story about what might happen later.

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IRONY (I)

• When something is different than what you expect
  it to be.
• Can overlap with other literary devices.

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SYMBOLISM (SYM)

• Something that represents something else.

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THEME (T)

• A message the author wants you to get from the
  story a point the author is trying to make. A
  story can have several themes.

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Theme 1 Role of Women (T-W)

• Jackson wants us to pay attention to the way
  women act and are treated in this story. This
  was a comment on society at the time the story
  was published (1948).

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Theme 2 Ritual without Meaning (T-R)

• Jackson wants us to think about times when people
  blindly follow traditions without pausing to
  think of the meaning behind them.

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Theme 3 Mob Violence (T-MV)

• Jackson wants us to think about the fact that
  when people are in a group, they may do things
  that they would never do alone. This mob
  mentality makes it easy to avoid taking personal
  responsibility for our actions.

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Annotating leads to..

• better reading, thinking, writing.