Literary Elements
The message the author wants to convey to the reader
What is theme?
The struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
Giving a non-human subject human characteristics.
What is personification?
This shows the reader an event that unfolded in the past.
What is a flashback?
The author's main reason for writing (persuade, inform, entertain)
What is author's purpose?
A text structure in which the events are displayed in the order they happen.
What is chronological order?
The time and place of the action (provides context)
The person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
What is a character?
What is a simile?
The author's use of clues to hint at what may happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
An author's typical way of writing.
What is author's style?
A text structure that explains an action and that action's results.
What is cause and effect?
The feeling created in a reader by a piece of writing
What is the mood?
The events, the order in which they occur, & their relationship to one another.
What is the plot?
Anything that stands for or represents something else.
What is a symbol?
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is a dialogue?
The dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
A text structure where the author lays out the differences and similarities between two or more subjects.
What is compare and contrast?
The author explicitly states character traits. (The girl is pretty.)
What is direct characterization?
This part of the plot introduces characters, setting, and the basic situation.
What is exposition?
A comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways, but not in others.
What is an analogy?
A contradiction between what happens and what is expected.
What is irony?
To convince the reader to think or do something using rhetorical devices
What is persuade?
Theses types of details appeal to the five senses (taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell)
What are sensory details?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The author SHOWS the reader the character's traits through Speech, Thoughts, Effects on others, Actions, or Looks.
What is indirect characterization?
A comparison using exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
This type of irony occurs when the character doesn't know what is happening, but the audience does.
What is dramatic irony?
To teach or give information to the reader
What is to inform?
A logical way of presenting a belief, conclusion, or stance.
What is an argument?
This point of view occurs when the narrator is a person in the story (I,me,my)
What is first person?
This point of view occurs when the narrator is a person outside of the story (they, he, she)
What is third person?
The use of two opposite or contradictory words to create new meaning (pretty ugly)
What is an oxymoron?
This type of irony occurs when what is said is different than what is meant. (sarcasm)
What is verbal irony?
To give the reader a story that they will enjoy.
What is entertain?
This piece of an argument presents an opposing position to a claim.
What is a counterclaim/counterargument?
The writer's attitude towards his/her audience and subject.
What is tone?
This type of conflict occurs when a character struggles with an outside force.
What is external conflict?
A popular saying or phrase that only makes sense in the speakers' language
What is an idiom?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or literature.
What is an allusion?
A writer's unique language that allows the reader to "hear" the words.
What is voice?
This piece of an argument presents a logical connection between evidence and claim.
What is reasoning?