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Elements Of Literature

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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Elements of literature

Situational Irony:
Difference between what happens and what we expect.

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Verbal Irony:
Difference between what someone says and what someone means.

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Dramatic Irony:
Difference between what the audience knows and what the characters know.

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Protagonist moves forward against he Antogonist.

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Protagonist:
Main Character who moves against the Antagonist

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Speaker: in a poem is the main character/protagonist.("The Raven")

Antagonist

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Narrative poetry:
A story; includes plot; conflict; setting

Character
People, animals, or anything that moves the plot forward.

Setting:
Where and When Exposition of a story;the beginning

Conflict
Problem in the story or struggle between two opposing forces.

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Internal Conflict
Problem that is inside the character

External Conflict

Resolution:
The solution to the conflict. The End of the story.

Sound Devices on Poetry include alliteration, repetition, rhyme, and rhythm.

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Alliteration
Repetition of consonant sounds.

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Repetition:
Repeating words.

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Rhyme:
Similar sounds at the end of two or more words.

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Rhythm
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Suspense:
Reader's sense of anxiety or the way

Connotation
The way word is used;not the definition one would find in the dictionary.

Denotation
Think "d" for dictionary; the definition in the dictionary.

Allusion-Not Illusion
An indirect reference to a famous person, character, thing, or event

Tone
The words that reveal how the AUTHOR feels.

Homophones
Words that sounds the same but have different spellings/meaning.

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Foreshadowing
Hints (gives clues)about what will happen in the story

Flashback

How is a story organized?
Exposition/Beginning;rising

Exposition:
Introduces

Rising Actions:

Climax
Is the point of greatest interest or suspense. It is the turning point.

Falling action
Includes all the events after the climax

Resolution:
Presents the final outcome

Expository- Explaining