Tag Archives: novel

On Voice: Three Ways

On Andrew Smith and Attacking the Avant-Garde

We All Looked Up: Imagery, Metaphor and Word Choice in YA Lit

Ten: Quick Confusion

If I Stay: Emotionalism in Detail

Half Bad: Engaging Expectation in YA Lit

We Were Liars: Compositionally Unstable

Linked: A Prelude to Story in YA Lit

Cress: Word Choice in YA Lit

The Hunger Games: Credibly Unique Protagonists in YA Lit

The Hunger Games: Stakes, Risk & Character in YA lit

The Eye of Minds: Pragmatic Implausibility in YA Lit

Blood Red Road: Language as Character & Setting in YA Lit

Allegiant: Thought Acts in YA Lit

Ashes: Thought Acts in YA Lit

The Maze Runner: Creating Tension & Suspense in YA Lit

The Fifth Wave: Embodying Narrative in YA Lit

Ender’s Game: The Utterly Reliable Narrator in YA Lit

Uglies: The Shay Alternative in YA Lit