Literary Elements & Purpose for writing
This is the purpose of writing.
What is to inform, to explain, or to persuade?
When the narrator is a character in the story using "I" or "me."
What is first person?
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The message or central idea the author wants you to learn.
What is theme?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
This four-line stanza often follows a specific rhyme form such as ABAB or AABB.
What is a quatrain?
The art of using language effectively to persuade or influence an audience.
What is rhetoric?
The people, animals, or creatures in a story.
What are characters?
The angle from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
A direct comparison that says one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
True or False: A theme is usually stated directly in the text.
What is false?
The feeling or idea a word suggests.
What is connotation?
This poetic pattern shows how the end sounds of lines repeat.
What is a rhyming?
When a speaker appeals to logic and facts to convince the audience, they are using this method.
What is logos?
The most eventful part of the story before the resolution.
What is the climax?
The character or voice telling the story.
Who is the narrator?
In Eulogy of the Dog, the author wrote "A dog is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens."
What is simile?
The topic of a literary work - one to three words
What is the subject or main idea?
Choose the word with a positive connotation: “enrich” or “corrupt”
What is "enrich"?
This type of poem tells a story often in short stanzas, and commonly uses rhyme and rhythm.
What is a ballad?
This type of appeal tries to convince the audience by stirring their emotions.
What is pathos?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
When the narrator only knows one character’s thoughts and feelings.
Who is third person limited?
Repeating the same sounds in a sentence such as: Today is terrific Thursday.
What is a alliteration?
When a theme is not stated directly.
What is implied?
The connotation of the word “broke” in this sentence: The doctor broke the difficult news to the family.
What is negative?
Changes in this element can make a poem feel fast, slow, joyful, or tense, shaping how the reader understands it's meaning.
What is rhythm?
When using ethos the speaker is uses this to persuade.
What is trustworthiness or credibility?
A "building block" that develops a work o literature.
What are Literary Elements?
An omniscient point of view has this type of perspective?
What is "all-knowing"?
Figurative Language is used for this type of effect, often to illustrate or imply ideas directly.
What is descriptive effect?
Themes that are generalized about life or human nature and can be understood by everyone.
What are universal themes?
The denotation of “scheme” is “a plan to do something,” but the connotation is …
What is sneaky, dishonest, or deceiving?
This 19 line poetic form repeats 2 lines throughout the 6 stanzas (19 lines) using mostly an ABA rhyme pattern.
What is a vilanelle?
A persuasive speech that combines credible sources, emotional stories, and logical reasoning is said to be using all three of these rhetorical devices.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?