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Literary Element
Kareem Jabsheh |
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Literary Elements are the components of a literary piece: Character, setting, plot, theme, and ending/resolution
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The plot usually refers to the sequence of events and happenings that make up a story |
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A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory |
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The locations or events in the story |
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The leading character of the story |
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A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary |
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The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition (introduction) of the story and builds up to the climax |
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The Climax is when the story is at it's most intense and important point |
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The Falling Action occurs right after the climax, but before the ending |
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It's the event that resolves the conflict occuring in the story and provides a conclusion |
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Person VS Person Conflict |
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A conflict arising between two or more characters of the same kind. An example of this might be a fist fight between two people. Such as the Protagonist (main character) vs. the Antagonist (villain or someone who's against the protagonist) |
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Person VS Society Conflict |
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When the main character encounters struggle with the laws or beliefs of a group. |
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When the main character encounters struggle with deciding what to do |
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Person VS Nature Conflict |
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When the main character struggles with the force of nature. |
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First Person Point of View |
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When the main character is telling the story instead of a narrator. |
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Second Person Point of View |
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The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by second-personpersonal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun "you".
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Third Person Point of View |
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This is when the narrator narrates the story |
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The theme of any literary work is the base topic or focus that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece |
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The tone of a literary work is the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development. |
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The literary device ‘mood’ refers to a definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work. |
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Literary Devices are more like the add-ons towards the story. |
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Referring to another meaningful idea or piece without explicitly mentioning it |
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When the character returns changed by the journey |
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When the reader knows something that the character does not know |
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When two unrelated, dismilar objects are being compared throughout parts or the whole story |
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Foreshadowing is when there is a warning or an indication of a future event |
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A Flashback is when a character in the story reflects to the past |
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A scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story |
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A comparison without using ''Like'' or ''As'' |
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When the character brings an object to life |
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The act of repeating something that has already ben said or written
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A question that is used in a situation that an answer is not expected |
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A comparison using ''like'' and ''as" |
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A situation in which the opposite of what was intended to happen ironically happens |
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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
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When the speaker says or writes something but really means something else |
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