My colleague gave you some very good advice. In fact, I don't have much to add. The literary devices are generally easy to recognize once you remember what they are.. It's the analysis which is a little tougher to do if it's been awhile or if you don't do it very often.
Take, for example, point of view (POV). You've identified that as first person in this novel--Scout tells the story. Your analysis would include determining what having Scout as the narrator means. For example, do we (readers) know more or less for having a young girl tell this story? Can we trust what we hear from her? Do we need to interpret anything she says before we take it as truth?
It's these kinds of questions which help you get beyond the what (1st person POV) to the why (how the story is different for having Scout as our narrator).
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