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Literary elements

Literary elements . Terms & D efinitions. Author’s purpose. The reason a writer has written the piece: To entertain To persuade. - To explain - To inform. Setting.

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Literary elements

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  1. Literary elements Terms & Definitions

  2. Author’s purpose • The reason a writer has written the piece: • To entertain • To persuade • - To explain • - To inform

  3. Setting The time and place a story takes place. You know this. When and where. This gives you clues to how characters will react to situations.

  4. Exposition • The background of a story; usually the beginning of a literary or dramatic work where the characters and setting are introduced. The beginning. Setting the groundwork.

  5. Plot Alsocalledstoryline.Theplanormain story of a literary work. Basically, what happens in the story.

  6. Theme/author’s message A unifyingidea… what the author wants the audience to learn or understand about life or human nature from reading the text.

  7. Universal theme • A theme (author’s message) that is understood and used by any culture and would be understood during any time period. • Don’t hold grudges • Treat others how you want to be treated

  8. Point-of-view How the story is told – the type of narrator used • 1stperson – told from an ‘I’perspective. The narrator is a character within the story. • 3rd person – the narrator is not a character in the story • Omniscient – the narrator knows everything, is God like. • Limited – only knows the feelings of a specific character… not God like

  9. PLOT LINE Visual representation of the pieces of a story Climax/turning point falling action Rising action resolution Exposition

  10. Rising action • arelatedseriesofincidentsinaliteraryplotthat build toward the point of greatestinterest (climax or turning point). What leads up to the problem?

  11. Climax • adecisivemoment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in aplot. Highest point of action (there may be several in a longer story).

  12. Falling action • thepartofaliteraryplotthatoccurs after theclimax has been reached. What happens after the explosion of action?

  13. Resolution • The final outcome of a literary or dramatic work…How the conflict is resolved in the end. How does it end? What’s the wrap up/conclusion to it all?

  14. Conflict The struggle between two opposing forces (not necessarily people)… the main focus of every story is defined by the conflict of the story.

  15. Imagery • figurativedescription that helps the reader/audience develop pictures in their mind. • Descriptive words and phrases that recreate sensory experience for the reader.

  16. Symbol(ism) a word, phrase, or image that has an associated meaning and has value outside of itself. representing ideas, feelings or objects with a symbol; giving objects meaning or characteristic other than their literal meaning

  17. Sensory details • Words and/or phrases that appeal to the reader’s five senses - sight, smell, hearing touch, and taste. • Similar to imagery

  18. Metaphor • The comparison of two different things that does not use like or as. • The rain was tears from heaven • “Truth is a hard deer to hunt”

  19. Extended metaphor • Compares two unlike things in at some length and usually in several ways. • A poem or a short story can be an extended metaphor – does not use like or as

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