Literary Elements
People in a story.
Characters
The way author's organize information in text.
Text structure
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
rhyme scheme
The author's position on a problem or issue.
Claim
The thief was as quiet as a mouse.
Simile
The _____ are events in the story. _____ is the time and place of a story.
Plot, setting
Which text structure is analyzes similarities and differences?
Compare and contrast
The pattern or organization of a poem.
Facts, statistics, or examples directly quoted from the text.
Evidence
My laptop died.
Personification
Define conflict.
Struggle or problem between opposing forces.
What are 3 characteristics of informational text?
Fact based, evidence, text features
A 19-line poem, with 5 stanzas of 3 lines and 1 stanza of 4 lines is called a _____.
Villanelle
Reasons and evidence are used to _____ a claim.
support
I'm starving!
hyperbole
What is 3rd person omniscient point of view?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is the central idea of a text?
What are 3 defining characteristics of a traditional poem?
lines, rhyme and meter, and carefully chosen words to convey moods
What is the counterclaim?
The part of an argument that addresses opposing views (mentions the other point of view).
Boom, boom, boom, clap.
Onomatopoeia
What 3 questions can help the reader determine a story's theme?
What do characters want? How do characters reach their goals? Do characters succeed, why or why not?
Transitions show the relationship between ideas. What words signal compare and contrast text structure?
Similarly, however, both, unlike, on the other hand, while.
What is the rhyme scheme?
from Horton Hears a Who
On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool,
In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,
He was splashing... enjoying the jungle's great joys...
When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.
aabb: Nool a pool a joys b noise b
Name the 6 parts of an effective argument.
Claim, Reasons, Evidence, Counterclaim, Rebuttal, Call to Action
Include elaboration with each piece of evidence
Break a leg!