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John Updike’s “A&P”: Double-Sided Journal Entry
Instructions: John Updike uses several literary techniques to develop his short story. What you
have here is a double-sided journal entry. On one side, there is a space provided for literary
terminology; on the other, there is a space provided for the evidence from the text. I have given
you half of the information, please fill in the rest.
Evidence from Text
Literary Terminology
HiHo Crackers
Sheep
“No Sale”
Colloquial (Diction)
Epiphany
Epithet (Diction)
“…if she had been born at the right time they
would have burned her over in Salem.”
(p.18) “…and outside the sunshine is skating
around on the asphalt.”
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Simile
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A&P Meat Market
Onomatopoeia
“…between the smoothest scoops of vanilla
I had ever known were there.”
Sammy quits his job and when he comes out
of the store he says: “I look around for my girls,
but they’re gone, of course.”
(p. 18) “sad Sunday-school-superintendent stare”