Language Literary Elements
This literary element compares two unlike things without using "Like" or "as".
Identify the major literary element: “Inside, The Tower was a long dark room with a counter at one end and tables at the other and dancing space in the middle.”
What is setting?
The person telling the story is nameless, so we refer to them as this.
What is the narrator?
What are the religions experiencing tension during the story?
What are the Igbo Christians and Hausa Muslims?
This part of a paragraph helps to prove your claim.
What is evidence?
This literary element is an author's choice to use a specific word to get a specific outcome.
What is Diction?
This literary element helps us understand perspective. The story changes based on who is telling their side of the story.
What is POV/Narration?
Yaiza and our narrator both participate in this sport, which Yaiza says is for rich people.
What is tennis?
Identify the literary element: “The woman sighs and Chika imagines that she is thinking of her necklace, probably plastic beads threaded on a piece of string.”
What is narration/POV?
What is the purpose of a Zoom in?
What is to analyze your specific literary element and understand the author's purpose for using it?
Identify the literary element: "Daddy was smiling, and Mama’s eyes went soft as they followed our hands wandering over Mr. Henry’s body. We loved him. Even after what came later, there was no bitterness in our memory of him."
What is Foreshadowing?
This part of the plot structure helps to build tension in the story and sets the scene for the big climax in the middle.
What is rising action?
Yaiza beats our narrator in the tournament, but almost lost due to this mishap.
What is Yaiza's tennis racket breaking?
This literary element is the opposite of a flashback, which the narrator uses to talk about what Chika will experience later after the story we are reading has concluded.
What is flashforward?
What is:
1. Context
2. Direct quote
3. Citation
Pecola is reference to "Peola" a character from the movie "Imitation of Life". Morrison uses this literary element during chapter 4 to explain it.
What is Allusion?
The setting of the Bluest Eye is the same place where Toni Morrison grew up.
What is Ohio?
Our Narrator is using this literary element to reflect on her childhood with Yaiza.
What is flashback?
Finish the thesis statement: The narrator uses indirect characterization to prove....
Teacher's Choice!
These to things are missing from the Argument + Name-it:
Symbolism was used to prove that friendship can be difficult if trust is broken between two people.
What is the author's name and the title?
Intersectionality was used in connection with this literary element to help us understand the complexity of our Black female characters in The Bluest Eye, especially Mrs. MacTeer.
What is indirect characterization?
Though the story takes place in Kano, Nigeria, majority of the conversation had in A Private Experience happens in this place.
What is a small shop/store?
Identify the literary element: "But I hesitated, and then my window was gone, cars like spaceships zooming across."
What is simile?
This action is what started the riot in Kano
What is Christian man was killed for driving over the Koran.
What are the three rules for a strong theme statement?
What is:
1. Universal
2. Debatable
3. Avoid Absolutes