Literary Language- Elements and Devices
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literary nonfiction:
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Narrator:
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point of view:
The one who tells the story
Text that includes literary elements and devices usually
associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, or
events. Examples include autobiography, biography, memoir,
and personal narrative.
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literary language:
The narrator's position in relation to the story being told. 1st-I,
me, we, 3rd- he, she, they
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tone:
Words that directly (literal) communicates emotion while it
connotes (figurative) an extra meaning. .
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literary devices:
Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the
audience
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mood:
techniques or words used to create a particular effect; include
allusion, flashback, foreshadowing, imagery, symbolism,
metaphor, simile, sound devices, etc.
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Literary Elements:
Setting, character, plot, style, point of view, mood/tone, theme
of a story or other piece of literature.
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
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theme:
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personification:
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may
be stated directly or indirectly.
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imagery:
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is
given human characteristics
Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of
language to create sensory impressions.
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simile:
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
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metaphor:
A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between
objects being compared. Without using "like or "as"