Common Lit. Elements
A description that tells us something about the character. (Appearance, etc.)
What is Direct Characterization?
What is Part 2 of the Regents?
Where does the Thesis Statement go in your introductory paragraph?
What is the last sentence?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A description that shows us something about a character.
What is Indirect Characterization?
What is the first thing you should do on the Reading Comp. Section of the Regents?
What is read the questions?
Where does the punctuation of the quote you are citing go?
What is outside the parenthesis?
A description of something that uses the five senses.
What is imagery?
A description that doesn't use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What is Part 1 of the Regents?
What is Reading Comprehension?
What are the "paragraphs" in a poem called?
What is a stanza?
A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
What is Motif?
A literary device that hints at or suggests future events in a story, creating anticipation and suspense for the reader.
What is foreshadowing?
What two parts of the regents are worth the most?
What is Part 1 and Part 2?
What do you need to contrast your argument in your Argumentative Essay?
What is a counterclaim?
The attitude or feeling from the author that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is Tone?
A literary device where writers use symbols—objects, characters, or events—to represent abstract ideas or concepts beyond their literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
The sequence of events that make up a story, where each event is connected by cause and effect.
What is the plot?
How many texts do you NEED on the Argumentative Essay?
What is THREE texts?
What kind of words do you need to integrate into your essay to keep the flow between paragraphs?
What are transition words? (However, Although, In addition, etc.)
The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
What is Irony?
A device that shows readers/viewers an event that happened previously in the story.
What is a flashback?