LITERARY ELEMENTS
This is the attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience.
Tone
This is the feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
Mood
The timing of the old man's action raises reasonable doubt because ___________________.
The actions he testified to doing that night would have taken much longer that he claimed it took
According to the jury, this was the defendant's motive for murder.
His father had been him since he was young and the defendant snapped
This is the action that makes up the story.
Plot
This is the time and place of the action of a literary work.
The setting
The heat of the courtroom foreshadows this.
The heated deliberation the jurors will have about the case
This is why Juror 3 seems intent on finding the defendant guilty.
He had a bad relationship with his own son. His son had hit him, then run away several years earlier
This is a person, place, thing, or idea that represents itself as well as something else.
A symbol
This is an intense feeling that an audience experiences while waiting for the outcome of events in a literary work.
Suspense
The knife was first raised reasonable doubt because ______.
Juror 8 had purchased one just like it at a shop near where the defendant lived
This is the problem with a hung jury.
A guilty man could go free
This is the main character in a literary work.
The protagonist
This is a type of conflict that can be witnessed.
External conflict
Juror 8 discredited the "I'll kill you" testimony by _______.
By pointing out that everyone says it but doesn't mean it. Also he reminds the jurors that the el train would have been too loud to hear it.
This was why some of the jurors thought the defendant's alibi was weak.
He said he went to the movies, but he could not remember what movie he saw
The is the message in a literary work.
Author's intention
This is a type of conflict that occurs within a character and usually involves a decision.
Internal conflict
The testimony of the woman across the street raises reasonable doubt because ____________.
Juror 6 points out that she wore pretty thick glasses and would not have worn her glasses to be or put them on to casually look outside. Also, she would not have had time to put on her glasses and witness the murder
This is why Juror 8 voted not guilty on the first vote.
He was not comfortable sentencing a young man to death without discussing the evidence