Literary Elements: Advice to Little Girls

Literary Elements: Advice to Little Girls

Literary Elements

• Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

  • Satire is used to humorously critique political issues and expose human err or mistakes to bring awareness and change to important topics.

• Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Multiple Choice

What is satire?

• The use of literary devices to create cinematic, rich images

• The use of incongruity, irony, parody, exaggeration to mock vices and folly

• The use of personification and metaphor to create a unified tone and theme

• A form of zeitgeist

Multiple Choice

The main purpose of Satire is to...

• Agree with something

• Make people laugh

• Criticize something

• To bring about change

Multiple Choice

How does satire attempt to improve individuals or society?

• By modeling correct thought and behavior

• By ridiculing flaws and follies

• By praising achievements and honors

• By explicitly explaining the difference between right and wrong

Multiple Choice

What satirical technique is being employed in this satire about the future?

• Exaggeration

• Irony

Literary Elements Continued...

• Verbal Irony: is when you say something different than what you mean.

• Situational Irony: is the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected.

• Dramatic Irony: is a writing technique where the writer reveals information to the reader, but not to the characters.

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What's an example of verbal irony?

• Chanting, "You're an awesome athlete!" to an Olympian
• Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car
• When the sun is shining and the birds are singing, you say, "Nice weather we're having, right?"
• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best definition of sarcasm

• using verbal irony with attitude

• being mean

• saying something to annoy other people

• being witty or clever

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Jimmy “the Lock” was a master safe cracker. He could bust open any safe in the world in under an hour using a crow bar, stethoscope, drill, and sledgehammer. No lock could hold Jimmy, and that's why they called him "the Lock." Jimmy was scheduled to do a six-year stretch in Statesville for a bank job that got messy in suburbs, but he picked the lock to his cell and escaped. Now Jimmy was set up to get

the score of his life. He had the blueprints all laid out to do a job on an armored car diamond delivery. Gathering up all of his tools and gear, Jimmy headed out the door to meet his contact, Bobby the Rat. But when he got to his car, he couldn't find his keys. He patted down his pockets before he realized that he must have left them on his dresser. Jimmy went back to get his keys, but the door wouldn't open. Jimmy “the Lock” had locked himself out of his house and missed his opportunity to catch the

armored car.

• satire

• sarcasm

• situational irony

• understatement

Labelling

Match the type of irony to its denfinition

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Situational

Verbal

Dramatic

Match

Match the following

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

The reader knows that the wife survived the plane crash, but his wife thinks he didn't.

The winner of the spelling bee fails their spelling quiz.

Someone states during a rainstorm, " It's such a beautiful day!"

• The reader knows that the wife survived the plane crash, but his wife thinks he didn't.

• The winner of the spelling bee fails their spelling quiz.

• Someone states during a rainstorm, " It's such a beautiful day!"

Match

Match the following

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

The narrator reveals that the man inherits a fortune, but doesn't tell his family.

The man realizes he won the lottery but lost his ticket.

The cashier sweetly tell the customer to, "Have a nice day!"

• The narrator reveals that the man inherits a fortune, but doesn't tell his family.

• The man realizes he won the lottery but lost his ticket.

• The cashier sweetly tell the customer to, "Have a nice day!"

Multiple Choice

Identify the type of irony: “That was as much fun as having a root canal,” RJ. said after the difficult math test.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: Tyler walked into the empty gymnasium and said, “I feel like it’s too crowded in here.”

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: Sari carefully avoided the puddles, but she didn’t see the pond and fell in.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: Etienne didn’t know that her best friend was really her twin sister, but the reader knew.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: “Oh this is fantastic! Now we have a flat tire,” exclaimed Diandra.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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identify the type of irony: Mrs. Cheng left the car wash and it began to rain.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: The reader knew the stalker was in the bedroom closet. The girl went in to take a nap.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: Bryce put on his “Buy American” shirt that was made in China.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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Identify the type of irony: It was revealed that Marko found his wife’s ring, but she didn’t know and cried all day.

• Dramatic

• Situational

• Verbal

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As I grazed in the field, I realized that there were not any other animals around. I had a weird feeling that something was wrong. The other animals that are usually making noises are all silent. I see a shadow up in a tree. I think that is is unsafe here, so I am going to run away.

From what point of view is the passage written?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

Multiple Choice

As I grazed in the field, I realized that there were not any other animals around. I had a weird feeling that something was wrong. The other animals that are usually making noises are all silent. The rustling from my hooves are the only sound. I see a shadow up in a tree. I feel afraid and uneasy. I think that is is unsafe here, so I am going to run away.

From what/whose perspective is the passage written?

• A hunter

• An animal looking for friends

• An animal being hunted

Multiple Choice

What is the advantage to first person point of view?

• You learn the thoughts and feeling about muliple characters.

• You learn about the narrator deeply because we get an insight into their perspective.

• There isn't an advantage. We don't get any new information.

Multiple Select

Early one Sunday morning, I went hunting in the woods. My family was running low on meat and I needed to feed them soon. I am desperate to find some meat. As I sat high in the tree, a nice size animal came up grazing in the field. There were no other animals in the field like there usually is. I prepared myself to take aim, but out of nowhere the animal quickly ran away. Man! I have to look for another target now.

The two stories are the same story, but written from different perspectives. How does changing the perspective change the story?

• You get to see the story from the same perspective, but learn two different things that the narrator was thinking.

• You get to see how both the hunter and the animal saw the events that were taking place that morning.

• You learn about the hunter and the animal and what they saw and felt that morning.

Multiple Select

What is the advantage to third person point of view?

• You can experience the story through one character's thoughts and feelings.

• There isn't a bias because the author is not a character in the story.

• The reader is able to get multiple viewpoints about a situation.

Multiple Choice

The squirrel population in North America is at an unsafe number. Each year, people hunt squirrel to help the squirrel population and prevent many squirrels from starving.

What is the author's perspective?

• The author favors (is for) squirrel hunting.

• The author thinks that squirrels are harmful to the environment.

• The author does not favor (is not for) squirrel hunting.

Multiple Choice

I wonder who invented putting water into plastic bottles? Water bottles are disposable which means that they can be thrown away. Landfills are overflowing with garbage because people are too lazy to fill a reusable cup with water. Recycling has been set up, but many people do not recycle all of the water bottles that they use. The earth is being polluted with all the used water bottles.

What is the author's perspective?

• People should not drink out of water bottles beacuse they are disposable.

• People should drink out of water bottles becuase disposable things are good.

• People should never drink water.

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I could picture it. I have a habit of imagining the conversations between my friends. We went out to the Cafe Napolitain to have an aperitif and watch the evening crowd on the Boulevard.

Which point of view is used above?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both. Wilbur felt sad and alone. He thought to himself, I will not be able to replace my friend.

Which point of view is used in this story?

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Second person

• Third person limited

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know.

Which point of view is used in this story?

• Third person omniscient

• Second person

• First person

• Third person limited

Match

Match the following

• Point of View

• Perspective

• Pronouns

focuses on the type of narrator used to tell the story.

how the characters view and process what's happening within the story.

Help Identify the Point of View

• focuses on the type of narrator used to tell the story.

• how the characters view and process what's happening within the story.

• Help Identify the Point of View

Explanation Slide...

Pronouns like "I, Me, She, His" allow a clue into who is doing the story telling.

Multiple Choice

What is the Point of View?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscent

Explanation Slide...

By using the "I" pronoun, it shows you that the writer is telling a story about themselves and what they are doing or saying.

Draw

Circle the pronouns that identify the point of view

Explanation Slide...

First person pronouns include:

I

Me

My

We

Us

Multiple Choice

From whose perspective is this story being told?

• Son or daughter

• Mom

• Dad

Explanation Slide...

The author is telling the story through their perspective, in first person point of view. When they mention "their mom" we can use context clues to assume the author is either a son or daughter.

Multiple Choice

What is the Point of View?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscent

Multiple Choice

From whose perspective is this told?

• Son or daughter

• Mom

• Friend

Explanation Slide...

The author is writing the story from their perspective using first person point of view. When they say "my son's room" we can use context clues to guess that the author is a parent.

Multiple Choice

In which third person point of view is this written?

• Omniscient

• Limited

Explanation Slide...

Third person limited means access to ONE characters thoughts and feelings.

There are no thoughts and feelings present for other characters in the story, other than Woody.

Draw

Underline a thought or feeling present in this story

Explanation Slide...

From Woody's perspective, when the author writes "Woody knew..." that shows one example of insight into his thoughts and feelings.

Multiple Choice

From whose perspective is this story told?

• Andy

• The Mom

• Woody

Draw

This story is written in third person omniscient point of view, underline evidence of at least TWO thoughts or feelings present.

Explanation Slide...

"Would she choose him over Brom" shows Ichabod's thoughts.

"Brom was anything but happy" shows Brom's feelings.

Open Ended

Using the Ballroom scene from Sleepy Hollow, write an example of one of the following:

Katrinas Perspective/ Third Person Limited Point of View

Ichabod's Perspective/First Person Point of View

Brom's Perspective/First Person Point of View