Text Types
A painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.
What is a mural?
A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story
What is a Flashback?
The appeal to emotion
What is Pathos?
Title of the article/story
What is a headline?
A website newly introduced to South Fork and favored by Ms. K
What is Schoology?
A genre of writing in which the author describes places they have visited and their experiences ad may suggest or try to persuade the reader to partake in certain experiences.
What is travel writing?
a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional valiant attributes.
What is an anti-hero?
A plot type that includes a character who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed
What is the Hero's Journey?
A panel sometimes covering the top tier or an entire page/ half-page that is usually part of the beginning of the comics story
What is a splash?
This type of poem we once wrote in Mr. Kobold's class and was a large source of joy for Ms. K when she visited the Morikami.
What is a haiku?
A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.
What is an advertisement?
A physical break or interruption in a line of poetry.
What is a ceasura?
A type of literary voice who's credibility is compromised and is typically written in the first person.
What is an unreliable narrator?
A guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts and that important compositional elements should be placed within these sections.
What is the rule of thirds?
A three-letter word banned from Ms. Ballard's portable (and all good analysis), often "employed" in topic sentences.
What is "uses"?
Multiple drawn panels, narrative, sequence of events/idea
What is a Comic?
A literary device that implies comparison or contrast by placing two entities side by side to create dramatic or ironic contrast.
What is a juxtaposition?
An emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal, or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress.
What is catharsis?
Second most important story, often right below/right after the most important story
What is an off-lead story?
This fictional location is also used to refer to Ms. Ballard's portable.
What is Comala?
An image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor
What is a photograph?
The tragic flaw or error that reverses a protagonist’s fortune from good to bad
What is hamartia?
This Latin phrase can be used to describe the Spanish novel we studied in 11th grade.
What is "in medias res"?
A pattern set in the painting, produced by certain repetitions or a recurring motif
What is rhythm?
Recite the Mantra of Literary Analysis
A novel is a work of fiction crafted by an author who employs various literary devices, literary techniques, and other stylistic elements. As a student of literature, my job is to detect and observe these devices and techniques, explore how the author uses them, and explain the meaning of the story in light of them.
Keeping in mind the four guiding questions:
What is the author doing?
How is s/he doing it?
How do I know?
What does it mean?