Question

question 2
10 pts
lesson 8: new historicism
a hallmark of new historicism is to start literary reviews with what literary device?
a parallelism
an anecdote
a metaphor
a synecdoche

Explanation:

New Historicism often uses anecdotes to begin literary reviews as anecdotes help situate texts within historical and cultural contexts, which is a key aspect of New Historicist analysis. Parallelism is a rhetorical device about structure, metaphor is a figure of speech for comparison, and synecdoche is a part - whole representation, none of which are characteristic starters for New Historicist literary reviews.

Answer:

An anecdote