Brainstorming for Analysis Ideas

1. Irony

2. Satire

3. Hyperbole

4. Motif

5. Simile- “In the second place, since his ideas about her soul will be very crude and often erroneous, he will, in some degree be praying for an imaginary person, and it will be your task to make that imaginary person daily less and less like the real mother –the sharp-tongued old lady at the breakfast table” ( Pg 12).

6. Point of view

7. Flashback- “I once had a patient, a sound atheist who used to read in the British museum…” (Pg 2-3).

8. Allegory

9. Allusion- The characters in The Screwtape Letters refer to characters in the Bible like God and Satan. "The Enemy's determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father to withdraw his support from Him"(Pg 37).
10. Setting

Lewis, Clive S. The Screwtape Letters. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Print.