Literary Elements
The literary device that compares things using like or as.
What is simile?
The thesis, evidence and commentary, sophistication are...
What is the three components of the AP Lit essay rubric?
A method that is used to explain the complexity within the text.
What is the S/D/B method?
Literary elements that can be used for complexity.
What is juxtaposition, irony, oxymoron, and paradox?
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
This can be used to make real-world connections and represent deeper meanings.
What is symbols?
Three different types of essays on the AP LIT rubric.
What is poetry analysis, prose fiction argument, and literary argument?
These are important to use to support this method.
What is literary elements?
Female character that was complex in Midsummer Night’s Dream.
What is Helena?
An educated guess based on a fact.
What is inference?
She could feel the grass between her toes...... This is an example of _________________________.
What is imagery?
Your explanation has to have a connection with a broader context.
What is needed to earn a sophistication point?
Literary elements are present within these parts of the method.This section of analysis will require the use of adjectives, and your determinations of purpose will help, however now all purpose must be specific to the context.
What is all the parts of the S/D/D method?
If a character is complex, that means that they have….
What is contrasting qualities?
Something known to exist or to have happened.
What is fact?
An indirect reference made to another literary work, event, famous person, religion, art, or place.
What is allusion?
When there is a good defensible thesis, and your evidence and commentary are invalid.
What is thesis and evidence and commentary having no connection?
This section of analysis will require the use of adjectives, and your determinations of purpose will help, however now all purpose must be specific.
What is the “because” part?
Helena wants to be loved but once love is handed to her, she rejects it.
What is the traits that make Helena a complex character?
Double meanings.
What is ambiguity?
Many poets use this structural element that allows the reader to convey the tone of the passage and understand a significant idea.
What is consonance?
A word being able to give alternative interpretations of the text.
What is illuminating?
You have to make sure to include it all throughout your writing.
What is a real world connection?
The villagers despised the Man with Enormous Wings but also wanted to use him for their own good.
What is the villagers and the Man with Enormous Wings’ complex relationship?
A part represents the whole.
What is synecdoche?