LITERARY ELEMENT
This device refers to time periods, geographic locations, cultural contexts, immediate surroundings, weather, times of day, or times of year employed in the story.
What is Setting?
The point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved.
What is Climax?
List the name and description for the A.C.E.C Method
Assertion- claim/ thesis
Context- background information
Evidence- Direct quotes from the text
Commentary- Explanation and a minimum of 5 sentences relating back to the assertion
A work in which almost all of the characters are intended as symbols.
What is Allegory?
This device refers to how the author describes his/her characters.
What is Characterization?
The central problems of a text.
What is Conflict?
Collect many pieces of strong evidence
What is M.E.A.T.T.Y Quotes?
When animals, inanimate objects, or places are metaphorically given the qualities of human beings.
What is Personification?
This device refers to a broad idea or moral in a story.
What is Theme?
The story’s denouement is always at the end
What is Resolution?
List the name and description for the N.E.Z.Z Method
Name the literary device
Explain it- context for your evidence
Zoom In- “quotes the quote” and slowly explains the deeper meaning
Zoom Out- Explain the author’s purpose behind using the evidence you selected.
A description of something to be seen, hear, smelled, or touched.
What is a Imagery?
This device refers to when an author hints at what is to come in the narrative through a particular description or image.
What is Foreshadowing?
The background plot information.
What is Exposition?
Highlights sentences and phrases, identifying diction in a text
What is Annotation Guided Questions/ Annotation Rubric?
The attitude of the work takes toward the audience and subject. It can be playful, serious, upbeat, detached, ironic, intimate, haughty, objective and any other number of great adjectives used to describe an attitude toward something.
What is Tone?
This device refers to when a word or object stands in for something of bigger significance.
What is Symbolism?
The series of events that leads up to the climax of the story and the series of events that occur after the climax has been reached.
What is Rising and Falling Action?
Identifies and defines figurative language
What is Literary Elements?
A brief and often indirect reference to another work of art, person, place, or object.
What is an Allusion?