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Examples of the types of literary passages.
Fiction, dramas, poetry
When determining the themes or central idea of a text, readers often note that a number of interrelated and sometimes complicated ideas work together.
Complex account
The way the author's voice sounds within the literary text.
Tone
The story is arranged in order of time from the beginning to end.
Chronological
This makes a comparison using a inking word such as, like, as, or than
Simile
The process of looking closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together
Analysis
The reader is told what a character is like or a speaker or narrator describes what he/she thinks about a character.
Direct characterization.
How the characters see or feel about an event.
Point of view.
Meanings that are not understood by the definition of the words or phrase.
Figurative meaning.
A form of speech intended to convey the opposite of the actual meaning of the words.
Irony
When someone mentions a specific portion of a text to support an analysis of the text.
Cite
When and where a story, poem, or drama takes place.
Setting
Groups of lines in a poem
Stanza
This makes a comparison without a linking word.
Metaphor
The form of writing that ridicules, scorns people, practices or institutions.
Satire
Specific details f that from the text that support the author's purpose, characterizations, or central theme.
Textual evidence.
Introduce the characters, establish the setting.
Exposition
A narrative poem, often of folk origin
Ballad
This gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.
The use of hints in the narrative that tease the reader about what is to come in the plot
Foreshadowing
The deeper message. The meaning the reader takes away from a literary work.
Theme
A struggle between a character and an outside force.
Conflict
An overview of the text that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does include opinions.
Objective summary.
An exaggeration beyond belief
Hyperbole
Language that appeals to the senses and allows the reader to experience what the author is describing.
Imagery