Elements of Literature 1
Who is the Narrator?
The person telling the story.
Time and place of a story: when and where.
What is setting?
The reason the author wrote the piece.
What is author's purpose?
The first sentence of the essay that grabs the readers' attention.
What is a hook?
What is mood?
How the reader feels in response to the text.
A non-linear plot structure that goes back in time.
What is a flashback?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
What is personification?
To improve by making changes.
What is revise?
What is tone?
The author's attitude toward the topic.
To move smoothly from one topic (paragraph) to the next.
What is a transition?
What is someone's nature?
the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting
The events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
The roadmap of your essay.
What is thesis?
The narrator is a character in the story (characterized by the use of I, me, and my).
The narrator is a character in the story (characterized by the use of I, me, and my).
What is 1st person point of view?
A reference to a historical, mythological, or cultural event or person.
What is allusion?