Unit 1 Remediation

Giving human traits to something that is not human

• Personification

• Imagery

• Direct characterization

• Conflict

Uses vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their head

• Simile

• Verbal Irony

• 3rd omniscient

• imagery

Simile

• Comparing 2 or more things WITHOUT using like or as.

• Comparing 2 or more things using like or as

• Hints at what is happening later in the story

• Sarcasm; when you say one thing but mean another

• When the reader knows something that the characters do not

Metaphor

• Comparing 2 or more things WITHOUT using like or as.

• Comparing 2 or more things using like or as

• Hints at what is happening later in the story

• Sarcasm; when you say one thing but mean another

• When the reader knows something that the characters do not

Dramatic irony

• Comparing 2 or more things WITHOUT using like or as.

• Comparing 2 or more things using like or as

• Hints at what is happening later in the story

• Sarcasm; when you say one thing but mean another

• When the reader knows something that the characters do not

Direct characterization

• When you expect one thing to happen, but then the opposite happens.

• an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly

• reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly. Instead of describing a character in a straightforward way, the author shows their traits through that character's actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.

Situational irony

• When you expect one thing to happen, but then the opposite happens.

• an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly

• reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly. Instead of describing a character in a straightforward way, the author shows their traits through that character's actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.

Indirect characterization

• When you expect one thing to happen, but then the opposite happens.

• an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly

• reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly. Instead of describing a character in a straightforward way, the author shows their traits through that character's actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.

1st person POV

• the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view (I, we, me, us)

• the reader is part of the story (you, your)

• the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.

2nd person POV

• the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view (I, we, me, us)

• the reader is part of the story (you, your)

• the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.