Literary Elements
The voice or character telling the story.
What is the narrator?
It is the use of figurative language to create visual representations of actions, objects and ideas in our mind in such a way that they appeal to our physical senses.
What is imagery?
The main argument of an essay. It is probably the single most important part of an academic paper. The complexity, effectiveness, and quality of the entire paper hinges on this.
What is a claim?
It gives a thing, an idea or an animal human qualities
What is personification?
What is the form of "The House on Mango Street?"
What is a series of vignettes?
"Juliet had long, brown, curly hair and the most beautiful brown eyes Romeo had ever seen." This is an example of what type of characterization?
What is direct characterization.
It is deliberate exaggeration of actions and ideas for the sake of emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
A general atmosphere of a narrative.
What is mood?
It refers to the same consonant sounds in words coming together.
What is alliteration?
What is the setting of "Of Mice and Men?" Be as specific as possible.
What is the Salinas River Valley in Northen California? Much of the action takes place on a farm (bunkhouse).
The most important character in a story. This character undergoes change due to experiences in the story.
What is the protagonist?
It refers to the same consonant sounds in words coming together.
What is a alliteration?
This is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work This often comments on human nature or the human condition.
What is theme?
It is a literary technique in which an abstract idea is given a form of characters, actions or events
What is allegory?
What is Esperanza looking for when she is looking for "a home of her own?"
Her own identity / being a writer
This is a static character who opposes the most important character of a story. Different types may include people, nature, and society.
What is the antagonist?
Directly compares two distinct objects and draws similarity between them.
What is a metaphor?
This refers to the way in which words and sentences are placed together.
What is syntax?
Some ways that an author can develop characters?
Describe the conflicts in "Of Mice and Men?"
Lennie vs Curley (man vs man)
Lennie vs himself / Georges vs himself (man vs self)
George and Lennie vs society (man vs nature)
It is use of the words in such a way in which the intended meaning is completely opposite to their literal meaning.
What is irony?
These are the linguistic choices a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, a point of view, or tell a story.
What is diction?
The end of the central conflict: it shows how the situation turns out and ties up loose ends
What is the resolution?
This literary techinque employed by Steinbeck with great effect in Of Mice and Men (think: Candy's dog, the death of Curley's wife)
What is foreshadowing?