Literary Elements
Any person, figure, inanimate object, or animal with a role in a literary text
what is a character?
Theme can be either directly stated or _________
What is implied?
Row of words in a poem
What is a line?
Most important point or idea that can be directly stated or implied by the textual evidence and important details.
What is central idea?
Source-based information including facts, figures, and details used to develop an argument.
What is evidence?
Communication or involvement between two or more characters
What is interaction?
Narrator is outside the story.
What is third person?
Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
What text structure would provide ways that two mammals are both similar and different.
What is compare/contrast?
Three types of argument are deductive, abductive, and
What is inductive?
Time and place of a literary text.
What is setting?
Attitude or way of viewing something
What is perspective?
Voice in a poem, like a narrator
What is a speaker?
What text structure outlines an issue and ways it can be solved.
What is problem/solution?
Ethos, Pathos, and
What is Logos?
Struggle, challenge, or problem in a literary text.
What is conflict?
All of these details help build the ______
ð Details about the author’s life
ð Details about setting
ð Details about character interactions and dialogue
ð Details of conflict
ð Details about plot events
ð An author’s description, imagery, and figurative language
What is theme?
19-line poem with 6 stanzas (5 tercets and 1 quatrain)
What is a Villanelle
Author’s reasons or intents for writing shown through his or her language and structure(s).
What is author's purpose?
Strategies a writer or speaker uses to persuade others.
What is rhetorical appeals?
Sequence of events that take place in a literary text.
What is plot?
Type of third person narration where the narrator has unlimited, all-knowing knowledge
What is omniscient?
14-line poem written in iambic pentameter (each line has 10 syllables with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed)
What is a sonnet?
An author’s particular attitude towards or way of regarding an event or topic in a nonfiction text.
What is perspective?
Stating a claim or taking a position on an issue or problem that includes a series of reasons and evidence that build on one another to convince an audience
What is an argument?