Literary Elements
There are three important literary elements in Language Arts. What are they? (Hint: C, S, P. We've analyzed them in graphic organizers)
Character, Setting, and Plot
What is one way to think of theme? Define it.
The "moral", "lesson", "overall message" of a story
What is perspective?
The way a character/author thinks or feels about a certain subject
What are the three rhetorical appeals? (Hint: E, P, L)
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
What do we call the repeating pattern of words with the same sound at the end of a line?
Rhyme scheme
What do you call the beginning part of a plot, before the rising action, where the background information is given?
Exposition
What is one easy way to identify theme?
The author might directly say it
Pay attention to how the characters have changed
A lesson the characters have learned
It's the title of the book
Looking at the plot for clues
What are the three author's purposes for writing? (Hint: PIE)
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
Which of the three appeals is directed at credibility or shared interests with the audience? In other words, which appeal is about making people trust the speaker.
Ethos
What is the word for a group of lines in a poem?
Stanza
What do we call the traits that make up a character, internally? This includes things like their personality and behavior.
Characterization
What details need to be included in a summary? (Hint: 3 things)
Setting, characters, and most important events
What type of purpose lines up with the term "Expository Writing"?
Inform
Logos is a very important step in writing an argument. What does it involve?
Evidence, facts, elaboration, reasoning
What do we call a poem that has no structure whatsoever?
Free verse
At what point in a story do we see the characters come fact to face with the problem? This is generally the most stressful/peak point in the story.
Climax
A summary needs to be objective. What does objective mean?
Without personal opinion, bias, or unnecessary claims like "it was stupid, it was funny, etc."
How can we find an author's perspective?
Evidence, the positive or negative words they say, sometimes they just say it, the title of the article, etc.
Two part question for double points:
What is it called when the author predicts arguments from other sides?
What is the author's response or resolution to predicted arguments?
Counterargument/Counterclaim
and
Rebuttal
Why do poets usually break their poems into stanzas?
Each stanza has a different purpose/idea
What three things do we need to identify when working with setting?
Where the story happens
When the story happens
Any context to make sense of the events
Give two themes of stories that we have read over the course of this year.
Answers will vary.
What does a writer need to do to accomplish their purpose?
Use evidence, elaborate, and, consider their audience
Aside from the appeals, what else contributes to the rhetoric of a piece of writing? Name at least 3.
Figurative language, anecdotes, denotation and connotation, organization, reasoning, source/publisher, context, etc.
What do we call a poem that has exactly fourteen lines and rhymes while being broken into stanzas?
A sonnet