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Elements Of Literature

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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FICTION

  • something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story
  • Red wall.
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NON FICTION

  • A story that is based on real facts
  • A history of U.S.
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BIOGRAPHY

  • a usually written history of a person's life.
  • Joe DiMaggio: the illustrated life.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  • the biography of a person narrated by himself or herself.
  • A book written about himself by that person.
  • Going rouge by Sarah Palin.
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POETRY

  • A writing that's is metrical. Emotional.
  • There will come soft rains.
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PROSE

  • The ordinary language people use when talking.
  • Hello my name is austin.
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CONFLICT

  • INTERNAL conflict arise when the character finds trouble within himself
  • a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work
  • In the book Roy Morelli he finds out that he needs to focus on school and not baseball.
  • EXTERNAL conflicts are those that arise mostly through the interaction of the charcter to
  • Others and To his Environment.
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CONFLICT

  • External conflict EX.
  • In the book Roy Morreli Roy finds conflict with his dad since he won't bring him to
  • Baseball practice.
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CHARACTERIZATION

  • The means by which writers present and reveal character.
  • through their speech, dress, manner, and actions.
  • Readers come to understand the character Miss Emily in Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" through what she through their speech, dress, manner, and actions. Readers come to understand the character Miss Emily in Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" through
  • She says how she lives, and what she does.
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CHARECTERIZATION

  • DIRECT Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
  • Martin the warrior in red wall is told of what his personality is at the beginning.
  • INDIRECT characterization is when the author reveals the character's personality
  • Through the characters speech, what they say ECT.
  • The little girl left the game with a frown on her face.
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CHARACTERIZATION

  • Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and
  • Do not change throughout the course of a work.
  • Roy morrelis mom.
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CHARACTERIZATION

  • ROUND characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.
  • Thomas on the maze runner.
  • STATIC characters: a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change;
  • Camille in Roy Morreli.
  • DYNAMIC character is a person who undergoes a dramatic change in the middle of the story.
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CHARACTERIZATION

  • DYNAMIC EX. The Scrooge in A Christmas carol.
  • In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character (usually
  • The Protagonist) In order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
  • Orual is the foil character in till the have faces who highlighted the main dynamic character psyche.
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CHARARCTERIZATION

  • an ANTAGONIST is a person or a group of people who oppose the
  • main character.
  • Sara in Roy Morreli.
  • A PROTAGONIST is the main character; the good guy.
  • Thomas in the maze runner.
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SETTING

  • A setting is a place where the story takes place in the story.
  • Hi I live in Mexico, the setting of that story at that part was Mexico.
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THEME

  • Is a moral or lesson that the author is trying to get across.
  • Usually told by the end of the story.
  • The theme of red wall is bravery.
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TONE

  • The attitude towards the subject and
  • towards the people reading the book.
  • A sad book would portray a depressing tone.
  • The tone of the maze runner is a high paced tone.
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SYMBOLISM

  • Basically, it's saying something that stands for something else.
  • In the bible, revelation talks about the big bear of the north which is Russia.
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IRONY

  • Something that is unexpected, a turn of events.
  • In the maze runner a girl shows up in the glade.
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FORESHADOWING

  • A series of events that lead up to something big. Prefigure
  • Many events foreshadowed the coming of the girl in the maze runner
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ALLUSION

  • the act of making an indirect reference to something
  • The allusion in "there will come soft rains" actually means
  • That know one knows of the war when it is happening.
  • Biblical allusion: a figure of speech that refers to the bible.
  • I turned the other cheek when someone cut in front of me in line.
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ALLUSION

  • Historical allusion: a figure of speech that refers to something in the past.
  • Don't let that be another " Rome burning" said Austin.
  • Literary allusion: a figure of speech that refers to literary
  • Ryan was quite a Romeo with the ladies.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/IMAGERY

  • Provide a more visual description in word or thought.
  • The computers are like an old dinosaur at my school.
  • Metaphor Language: comparing two different things.
  • Time is money. He is a night owl.
  • Simile language: a figure of speech that compares two thing that are alike using the words "like" or "as".
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

  • Simile ex. Grandma is as blind as a bat.

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