Literary Elements & Analysis
This is the central message or lesson in a story.
What is theme?
The reason the author wrote the text.
What is author’s purpose?
A word that shows action or state of being.
What is a verb?
The first thing you should do when responding to a writing prompt using APEPEC.
What is answer the question?
When you read two texts and look at how they are the same or different.
What is compare?
This is the time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
A metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout a text.
What is an extended metaphor?
The correct punctuation to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
This part of APEPEC provides a direct quote or paraphrase from the text.
What is Proof (textual evidence)?
What strategy could I use when answering questions about a PAIRED set of texts? (Paired Passages)
What is the T-chart strategy? (Or a Venn Diagram)
The author’s attitude toward the subject or audience.
What is tone?
A technique that appeals to logic or reasoning.
A group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
After giving a quote, this part of APEPEC explains how it supports your answer.
What is Explain the evidence?
Using clues from the text to figure out something the author doesn't say directly.
What is inference?
Giving human characteristics to objects or ideas.
What is personification?
This appeal relies on credibility and trust in the speaker or source.
What is ethos?
A sentence that is missing a subject, verb, or complete thought.
What is a fragment?
List out the parts of the APE/ or APEPEC strategy used when writing short or extended constructed responses.
What are: Answer, Proof, Explain, Proof, Explain, Conclusion?
Thinking about how the author’s time, place, or life experience affects what they wrote.
What is context (or background)?
The sequence of events that drives a story forward.
What is plot structure?
A comparison between two unlike things to explain an idea.
What is an analogy?
These coordinating conjunctions can be remembered using the acronym FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The final part of APEPEC that wraps up your thinking and ties it back to the prompt.
What is the Conclusion?
What reading strategy helps you keep track of ideas, evidence, and thoughts while reading more than one text?
What is annotation (or annotations)?