Elements of Literature

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Elements of Literature

• Introduction

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Setting

• Time and place of the action
• View the following picture. What can you tell
  about the story just from studying the setting?

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Point of View

• First person told by a character using I. The
  narrator is a character in the story.
• Third person told by a nameless narrator. The
  narrator does not explain the characters
  thoughts and feelings
• Omniscient author tells story as if he is
  all-knowing like a god

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Mood and Tone

• Mood is the feeling a reader has from a work.
  Tone is the writers attitude toward the subject.
  
• Listen to Night on Bald Mountain and decide the
  mood and tone of this work.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vgMmfaaiWMEs

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Are you right?

• Many people have grown accustomed to hearing
  Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain during
  Halloween - it's definitely a dark piece of
  music. Rightfully so, the story behind Night on
  Bald Mountain is not one of light nature.
  Inspired by a short story by the Russian writer,
  Nikolai Gogol, in which witches would gather on
  Bald Mountain and hold sabbath, Mussorgsky was
  able to create a dreadfully haunting piece of
  music.

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Foreshadowing and Flashback

• Foreshadowing clues to hint at what might happen
  later
• Flashback scene within a story that interrupts
  to relate events that occurred in the past

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Symbol

• An object, happening, person, or place which
  stands not only for itself but also for something
  else, especially a big idea.
• Brainstorm common symbols in every day life

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Simile

• Comparison of two unlike things using like or as
• The rugby ball was like a giant egg, which he
  held carefully while he ran.

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Personification

• Gives an inanimate object the characteristics of
  life.
• The sunshine walked slowly across the lawn as I
  waited on the porch.

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Metaphor

• Comparison of two unlike things stating one is
  the other
• My fear is an anchor holding me down, preventing
  me from trying new activities.

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hyperbole

• A figure of speech in which an
• extreme exaggeration is used for
• effect. The author does not intend to be taken
  literally.
• Of Paul Bunyans big blue ox, Babe, measuring
  between the eyes forty-two ax-handles and a plug
  of Star tobacco exactly.
• -Carl Sandburg

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Dialect

• A form of language spoken by people in a
  particular region or group. Dialects differ in
  pronunciations, grammar, and word choice.
  Writers use dialect to make their characters seem
  realistic.
• http//www.okcfox.com/story/23373829/dialect-maps-
  show-the-variety-of-american-english
• there lived ol Brer Possum. He was a fine
  feller. Why, he never liked to see no critters
  in trouble. He was always helpin out, a-doin
  somethin for others.
• Brer Possums Dilemma
• -Jackie Torrence

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Allusion

• An allusion makes reference to a historical or
  literary person, place or event with which the
  reader is assumed to be familiar.
• The big kids call me Mercury cause Im the
  swiftest thing in the neighborhood.
• Mercury is the Roman messenger god known for
  great speed.
• Raymonds Run
• Toni Cade Bambara

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alliteration

• The repetition of beginning consonant sound in a
  line of poetry.
• Let us go forth to lead the land we love.
• J. F. Kennedy, Inaugural

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Oxymoron

• Two contradictory terms used together
• Sweet sorrow, jumbo shrimp, beginning expert,
  pretty ugly

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Onomatopoeia

• Words which sound like their meaning. The words
  imitate the sound.
• buzz, hiss, crackle, moo, pop, whoosh, zoom

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Static or Dynamic Character

• A static character does not learn or change from
  the beginning to the end of the story.
• A dynamic character changes or learns something
  due to the events in the story.

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Foreshadowing

• When an author mentions or hints at something
  that will happen later in the story, it is called

Foreshadowing
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Flashback

• When an author refers back to something that has
  already happened in the story, it is called

Flashback
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Dialect

• Dialecta form of language spoken
• by people in a particular region or group.
  Words are spelled the way people speak. Dialects
  differ in pronunciations, grammar, and word
  choice. Writers use dialect to make their
  characters seem realistic.