Literary Elements #1
The time and place of the action.
What is setting?
People, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a work of literature.
What is character?
Written conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.
What is repetition?
Maya's mind "was empty, like a dry riverbed where there is only cracked, baked earth and nothing lives."
What is simile?
The narrator is a character in the story.
What is first-person point of view?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile?
The arrangement of events by the order of occurrence.
What is chronological order?
A feeling of growing tension or excitement felt by a reader.
What is suspense?
In the "Tell-Tale Heart" video, the police take a book by Poe off the shelf, and a raven flies out.
What is allusion?
Expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject. Words such as angry, sad, and humorous can be used.
What is tone?
Involves a character who struggles against a force outside him- or herself, such as nature, a physical obstacle, or another character.
What is external conflict?
Occurs within a character.
What is internal conflict?
The reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
"I heard all things in the heaven and the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then am I mad."
What is first-person point of view?
The qualities shown by a character.
What is character traits?
The main character in a play, story, or novel.
What is protagonist?
Exists when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another.
What is verbal irony?
A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens.
What is situational irony?
Maya, Mr. Walsh, Mama, Papa, Aunt Madina, Nurzhan.
Who are characters?
A writer usually writes to express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
Refers to the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction.
What is point of view?
The most important idea about a topic that a writer or speaker conveys.
What is central idea?
A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.
What is allusion?
Nurzhan got in a fight with another student.
What is external conflict?