Elements of Literature
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the Plot?
This structure present relationships between events or actions and their outcomes.
What is Cause and Effect?
Refers to the process of examining something in detail to understand its components, structure, and relationships
What is Analysis?
The narrator is a character in the story and refers to themselves as "I" or "we."
What is First-Person?
The subject performs the action of the verb
Example: "The cat chased the mouse"
What is Active Voice?
Central idea, message, or lesson
What is the Theme of a story?
This structure involves presenting a problem or issue followed by one or more solutions or strategies to address it
What is Problem and Solution?
A conclusion or educated guess made based on evidence and reasoning rather than explicit information.
What is an Inference?
The narrator is an outsider who focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is Third-Person Limited?
The subject receives the action of the verb
Example: "The mouse was chased by the cat"
What is Passive Voice?
Tells the reader the time and place the story takes place.
What is the setting?
In this text structure, information is organized in the order in which events occurred or steps are taken.
What is Chronological/Sequential?
References to texts, events or people from the past
What is Allusion?
Is detached and impersonal, presenting only observable actions and dialogue without going into characters' thoughts or emotions.
What is Third-Person Objective?
Marks such as commas, periods, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.
What is Punctuation?
The perspective the story is told in.
What is the Point of View?
Texts with this structure analyze similarities and differences between two or more subjects, ideas, or concepts.
What is Compare and Contrast?
A reasoned and supported statement or claim that presents a position on an issue or topic.
What is an Argument?
Less common in literature but is characterized by the use of "you" to address the reader directly.
What is Second-Person?
Present, past, and future tense,
What is Verb Tenses?
The creation and development of characters throughout the story.
What is Characterization or Character Development?
In this text structure, the author provides detailed information about a person, place, object, or event.
What is Descriptive or Descriptions?
To give a brief statement or account of the main points or key aspects of something.
What is Summarize?
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
Are used to provide additional information about nouns (adjectives) and verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (adverbs).
What are Modifiers?