Literary Elements
This literary device compares things using like or as.
What is simile?
Thesis, evidence and commentary, and sophistication are...
What is three components of the AP lit rubric?
A method that is used to explain the complexity within the text.
What is the S/D/B method ?
Literary element that can be used for complexity.
What is juxtaposition, irony, oxymoron, and/or paradox?
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
An element to make real world connections and represent deeper meanings.
What is symbol?
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
Who 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 sophistication point?
You have to make sure when you are writing to bring it to a bigger idea. What is this bigger idea?
What is a real world connection ?
A character that is complex has.
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 is invalid.
What is thesis and evidence and commentary having no connection?
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/B method?
Traits that make Helena a complex character.
What is her desire to be loved, but dismissive when receiving it?
Double meanings.
What is ambiguity?
Many poets use this structural element that allows the reader to convey the tone of passage and understand a significant idea.
What is consonance?
Being able to give alternative interpretations of the text.
What is illuminating?
.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?
A complex relationship between the villagers and the Man with Enormous Wings’ are due to.
What is the despise for the old man with wings, but the need to use him?
A part represents the whole.
What is synecdoche?