Literary Elements
The struggle or clash between opposing characters (internal, external)
What is CONFLICT?
An organization device that creates expectations due to including clues about what will happen later.
What is FORESHADOWING?
Text that aims to represent ideas and evoke an emotional experience through the use of meter, imagery, rhyme, and figurative language
What is POETRY?
Attempts to persuade the reader by repeating a message over and over again
That is REPETITION?
To capture the most important parts of the original text but express them in a much shorter space in your own words
What is a SUMMARY or SUMMARIZE?
The time and place of the story
What is the SETTING?
Descriptive or vivid language in a literary work that appeals to the (5) senses.
What is IMAGERY?
The repetition is initial consonant sounds in neighboring words
What is ALLITERATION?
An attack on a person instead of an issue
What is NAME-CALLING?
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A logical conclusion based on evidence
What is an INFERENCE?
The method an authors uses to develop characters and their person traits
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
The use or a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal meaning. A contrast between expectation and reality
What is IRONY?
The genre of literature represented by works created for the stage
What is DRAMA?
An attempt to distract the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea
What is TESTIMONIAL?
To place together characters, situations, or ideas to show common and /or differing features
What is COMPARE AND CONTRAST?
What is the THEME?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is PERSONIFICATION?
An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others, or as if alone
What is a MONOLOGUE?
Tries to persuade the reader to think or buy something because it's a popular choice that "everyone" is doing
What is BANDWAGON?
The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationship to one another. To break down and interpret elements
What is ANALYSIS or ANALYZE?
The perspective from which the story is told
What is POINT OF VIEW?
A device in literature where an object represents an idea or something deeper
What is SYMBOLISM?
A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on stage
What is an SOLILOQUY?
An attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument
What is RED HERRING?
Words or phrases in a sentence, paragraph, and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
What are CONTEXT CLUES?