Literary Elements
This literary element refers to the struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The argument or opinion a writer is trying to prove.
What is the claim?
This paragraph contains the hook, author's name, title, name of the literary element, and central idea.
What is the intro paragraph?
The most important idea an author wants readers to understand.
What is the central idea?
Giving human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas.
What is personification?
The voice who tells the story.
What is the narrator?
Facts, statistics, examples, or quotations used to support a claim.
What is (text) evidence?
These paragraphs contain text evidence and analysis.
What is the body paragraph(s)?
A conclusion reached using clues from the text and prior background knowledge.
What is inference?
Nick Carraway tells the story of The Great Gatsby using pronouns like "I" and "me." This point of view is called this.
What is first person?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
The opposing viewpoint addressed in an argumentative essay.
What is the counterclaim?
In a TAR essay, text evidence should always be followed by this.
What is analysis?
Information from the text used to support an answer.
What is text evidence?
DAILY DOUBLE
The green light at the end of Daisy's dock represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams. This literary element is called this.
What is symbolism?
The use of clues and details that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch.
What is imagery?
DAILY DOUBLE
A student's essay includes a quote but does not explain how it supports the argument. This important piece is missing.
What is analysis?
This is the "tool" used by the author to develop the central idea.
What is the writing strategy (literary element, literary technique, or rhetorical device)?
The author's attitude or feelings about a subject.
What is tone?
In the sentence, “The athlete was exhausted after running the marathon,” the word exhausted most nearly means this.
What is very tired?
The message or lesson about life that an author conveys through a text.
What is the central idea (or theme)?
This part of an argumentative essay explains why the counterclaim is weaker.
What is the rebuttal?
The universal, life lesson that is developed by a writing strategy in the passage, and focus of the TAR Essay.
What is the central idea?
This is when the meaning of a word determined by surrounding words and sentences.
What is context clues?
In the sentence, “The city experienced a rapid increase in population over the last decade,” the word rapid most nearly means this.
What is very fast or quick?