Literary Elements
Poetry Review
Author's Purpose
Figurative Language Devices
Extra Review
100

a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces

Conflict

100

Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images.

Imagery

100

The three ways why an author writes a piece.

PIE (Persuade, Informative, Entertain)

100

An idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.

Personification

100

A central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.

Theme

200

the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.

Setting

200

The 3 S's for poetry analysis chart.

Speaker, Situation, Subject

200

You just finished reading Jack and the Beanstalk.  

Entertain


200

A figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect.

Metaphor

200

“measured motion" - a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables

Rhythm

300

The make up of specific characters

Character Types
300

describes the overarching structure or pattern of the poem.

Poetic Form

300

Authors use this to make their writing more imaginative and interesting.  

Figurative Language Devices

300

the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work.

Foreshadowing

300

a form of narrative verse that is considered either poetic or musical.

Ballad

400

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Syntax

400

The mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.

Tone

400

the rhetorical mixture of vocabulary, tone, point of view, and syntax that makes phrases, sentences, and paragraphs flow in a particular manner.

Author's Voice

400

whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do.

Irony

400

a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

Allusion

500

A mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.

Symbolism

500

The emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word, normally distinguished between positive, neutral, and negative.

Connotation 

500

all of the tools an author can use to develop and support a central idea, or argument in a text.

Author's Craft

500

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Oxymoron

500

the rhetorical mixture of vocabulary, tone, point of view, and syntax that makes phrases, sentences, and paragraphs flow in a particular manner.

Voice

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