Literary Elements
A description of the distinctive nature or features of someone/
something.
Characterization
The part in your analysis where you restate the evidence in your own words.
Says
What is known as a defensible interpretation of the text?
Thesis
This literary work of fiction is all about the hardships and misconceptions love, and its quarrels, can bring into people’s lives.
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
A basic comparison of two generally unlike things.
Metaphor
Generally anything that represents or stands for something else.
Symbolism
What type of analysis is a paragraph by paragraph analysis useful both for your own writing?
SDB Analysis
Name in order, the three different essays given on the exam.
Poetry analysis, prose fiction, literary argument
This book is a bildungsroman consisting of a series of vignettes. Who wrote this book?
Sandra Cisneros
A pair of rhyming lines, usually found at the end of a sonnet.
Couplet
Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Fill in the blank: To _____ is to stress the importance of something
Emphasize
One way to earn the sophistication point is by “identifying and exploring ____ or _____ within a selected work.”
tensions, complexities
This literary work of fiction ties into the concept of magical realism.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.” What is this a definition of?
Apostrophe
Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena was desperate for romantic love. Then, she had not one, but two men in love with her. Despite this, Helena felt even worse, and didn’t believe that the two men were in love with her. What is being demonstrated?
Complexity
EVIDENCE:
Provides specific evidence to
support all claims in a line of
reasoning.
AND
COMMENTARY:
Explains how some of the
evidence supports a line of
Reasoning.
How many points would this earn you?
3 points
In "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, the literary element of syntax impacts the tone of the poem. How does syntax portray how the girl feels?
Overwhelmed (synonyms allowed)
in Elizabethan poet and playwright who wrote at least 37 plays, invented over 1,000 words, and helped found the Lord Chamberlain's men.
Shakespeare
An object is used to represent something to which it is closely related.
Metonymy
How do you successfully connect to a broader concept?
Mention time, date, place or specific event
To earn 6 points on your essay your thesis needs to be ____ , your evidence needs to be ____ , and sophistication needs to be shown _______ your essay.
Defensible, specific, throughout
Found at the end of the 3rd quatrain in a sonnet, the ____ indicates a shift, using words like but, yet, etc.
Volta
A story explaining why the world is the way it is.
Myth