Informational Text Literary Elements

Summarization

• The author's attitude towards a subject.

• To express important details about something or someone in short, sequential, and clear form

• The main idea or message of a story, stated directly or indirectly

• Choosing more elevated words to establish formality within literature.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Cause & Effect

• A text structure: The author explains how two or more things are alike and/or different.

• A text structure: The author explains a topic, idea, place by listing characteristics and examples

• A text structure: The author states a problem and list one or more possible solutions to the problem

• A text structure: The author lists one or more causes or events & the resulting consequences.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is theme?

• Author's attitude toward a subject or audience.

• The feeling or emotion state that the author creates within a story.

• The main message or lesson, stated directly or indirectly

• A figurative speech that is a reference to a person, place, thing, or event in history.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is the conflict?

• The struggle or opposition between forces or characters.

• A reference to a person, place, thing, or event in history.

• A figurative speech that compares two very different things.

• The high point or the turning point of a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is tone within literature?

• The feeling or emotional state that an author creates for the reader.

• An unexpected turn of events

• The sound we hear in the author's words.

• The author's attitude towards a subject or audience.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is symbolism?

• A reference to a place, a person, an event in history.

• A figurative device of giving human qualities to inanimate objects.

• the use of words or images to represent specific concepts, people, objects, or events

• a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated without using "like" or "as."

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the author's main purpose in the following example: Joe writes an essay explaining the health hazards of over-consumption of alcohol.

• entertain

• Inform

• Persuade

• Summarize

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

What is the author's purpose in the following example: An article explaining the downfall of the Aztecs.

• Entertain

• Inform

• Persuade

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

What is the author's purpose in the following example? The play, Hamlet.

• Entertain

• Inform

• Persuade

• Express

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

A logical conclusion reached by a reader based on evidence, such as the reader's knowledge, the author, and historical context

• Allusion

• Inference

• Irony

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3