Literary Elements A
This is the feelings assciated with a word.
What is connotation?
This is the number of texts provided in Part II of the exam The Argument Essay.
What is 4?
These are the TWO different things you must identify in the literary passage and in order to write your analysis
What is a central idea and one writing strategy?
The time, place, and situation in which a story takes place. This can help convey important information about the world that impact other literary elements, like plot and theme.
What is SETTING?
This is where characters in a story talk to one another and what they say is represented in quotes.
What is dialogue?
This is why the author picks certain words...
What is the diction?
This is the minimum number of texts you MUST use evidence from when writing your response.
What is 3?
This is how you should annotate the literary excerpt while you are reading through it.
What is mark up any literary elements you find and keep asking yourself what the central idea seems to be?
What is the dictionary definition of a word?
What is denotation?
This is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is SIMILE?
What is the perspective the story is being told from?
What is point of view?
This is how you should annotate the texts for the Argument Essay.
What is use two different highlighters (or a +/- mark) to indicate evidence that supports the different sides of the argument?
This is the total number of paragraphs suggested for your Text-Analysis Response
What is 2-3 well-developed paragraphs?
This is when you expect things to happen a certain way, and then they actually happen in the opposite way.
What is IRONY?
The is the term for the problem that the main character has to face within a text.
What is CONFLICT?
What is a group of lines that form a unit in a poem?
What is a stanza?
This is something you should do between reading all provided texts in Part II and attempting to write the actual essay.
What is write an outline including a sophisticated claim, 2-3 reasons to support your claim, and a counterclaim?
This is the literary term for when an object, place, character, etc. is meant to represent another idea.
What is SYMBOLISM?
This can be developed through physical description, the words and actions of a character, and the way others react to the character.
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
A reference for a famous piece of literature, art, politics, or culture?
What is allusion?
This is the highest score you can get on Part II.
What is 6?
This is the highest score your can earn on Part III.
What is 4?
This is the literary element for the attitude of the author toward the subject matter.
What is TONE?
This can be visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory.
What is IMAGERY?