Literary Elements
a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces
Conflict
Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images.
Imagery
The three ways why an author writes a piece.
PIE (Persuade, Informative, Entertain)
An idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
Personification
A central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.
Theme
the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
Setting
The pattern of lines in a poem that have end rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
You just finished reading Jack and the Beanstalk.
Entertain
A figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect.
Metaphor
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
Plot
A mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Symbolism
describes the overarching structure or pattern of the poem.
Poetic Form
Authors use this to make their writing more imaginative and interesting.
Figurative Language Devices
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
The surrounding circumstances or background information in which something occurs
Context
The make up of specific characters
The mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.
Tone
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
whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do.
Irony
The way in which a text or speech is organized and arranged.
Structure
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Syntax
The emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word, normally distinguished between positive, neutral, and negative.
Connotation
all of the tools an author can use to develop and support a central idea, or argument in a text.
Author's Craft
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Oxymoron
a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
Allusion