Literary Elements (Terms Associated with Close Reading) pt3

is a term that describes the tension between opposing forces in a work of literature

• tone

• conflict

• setting

• suspense

is the quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events.

• rhetorical shift

• setting

• suspense

• tone shifts

is the perspective from which a narrative is told

• point of view

• style

• simile

• theme

knowing everything

• figures of speech

• personification

• conflict

• omniscient

when an author shifts the focus of attention to another character

• suspense

• point of view shift

• tone shifts

• setting

refers to a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader.

• style

• conflict

• theme

• rhetorical shift

is the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place.

• metaphor

• setting

• tone

• simile

is the writer’s characteristic manner of employing language.

• suspense

• point of view shift

• figures of speech

• style

is the central message of a literary work.

• theme

• tone shifts

• personification

• point of view

is the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed primarily through the author’s choice of diction, imagery, figurative language, details, and syntax.

• metaphor

• rhetorical shift

• conflict

• tone