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Literary Elements

Literary Elements. Literary Elements. Biographies: Narratives of a person’s life that include everything from birth to death, revealing those facts in an outsider’s objective tone. Characters: individuals who take part in the action Climax: point of greatest intensity. Literary Elements.

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Literary Elements

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  1. Literary Elements

  2. Literary Elements • Biographies: Narratives of a person’s life that include everything from birth to death, revealing those facts in an outsider’s objective tone. • Characters: individuals who take part in the action • Climax: point of greatest intensity

  3. Literary Elements • Conflict: problem in a writing • Dialect: way of speaking particular to a group or region • Dialogue: conversation between or among characters. • Expository texts: present facts to increase the knowledge and understanding of an audience • Ex: summaries and articles

  4. Literary Elements • Fiction: narrative prose about characters and events from the author’s imagination • All works of fiction share the basic elements of setting, plot, characters, dialogue, point of view, theme Historical Novels: fictional stories with real historical settings -allow reader to imagine what it was like to live in a culturally different time or foreign setting.

  5. Literary Elements • Idiomatic expression: phrases that mean something different from their individual words and help a writer to show a character's personality • Ex: “raining cats and dogs” used to describe heavy rain • Informational text: texts including expository, persuasive and procedural texts

  6. Literary Elements • Literary nonfiction: combine personal examples and ideas with factual information • ex.: personal essays and biographies • Novellas: intermediate works of fiction that are longer than short stories but are concise and focused than novels. • Novels: extended works of fiction that are usually organized into segments called chapters • Novels can include subplots in addition to the main story line and may explore a number of characters in depth

  7. Literary Elements • Personal essays: convey the writer’s thoughts and feelings about an experience or idea • Perspective: the author’s point of view on the subject, including the opinions that the author expresses and the source of the author’s information—whether general research, for example , or personal experience • Persuasive texts: written to influence the opinions or actions of an audience • Ex: editorials, speeches, debates, and reviews

  8. Literary Elements • Plot: progression of events in a work of fiction. • Point of view: perspective from which a story is told. The voice and persona of the narrator can affect the tone and plot of a text. • 1st person: the story is a told by a narrator who particpates in the action of the story • 3rd person: story is told by a narrator outside the story

  9. Literary Elements • Procedural texts: explains a process. These texts often include visuals to help illustrate steps. Ex: instructions, recipes, and manuals • Purpose: author’s reason for writing. It may be to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to describe • Resolution: conclusion • Setting: time and place a story takes place

  10. Literary Elements • Short stories: brief narratives, with carefully limited action that allows the writer to focus on one main plot complication • Theme: underlying meaning or insight that an author conveys in a story • Tone: expresses an author’s attitude toward the subject and the reader. It is conveyed through choice of words and details • Universal theme: one that applies to all people in all cultures

  11. Test!!! • Wednesday, 9/12 • This powerpoint is on my website under handouts • Go to Klein Home Page • Handouts • http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/mshallenberger1/

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