Literature Elements & Definitions

When you use visually descriptive or figurative language in your writing. The author's attempt to create a mental picture in the mind of the reader.

• Simile

• Imagery

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Use of clues to suggest something that is going to happen.

• Metaphor

• Dramatic Irony

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Comparisons between two things that are NOT like and replaces the word with another word but uses “like” or “as” within it.

• Simbolism

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The author's voice or attitude about what he or she writes

• Tone

• Imagery

• Situational Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

A person, place, event or object that has a deeper meaning that its literal meaning.

• Metaphor

• Mood

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Comparison between two things that are NOT alike

• Mood

• Metaphor

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The feeling a reader gets from a story.

• Mood

• Alliteration

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Series of words begin with the same consonant sound.

• Tone

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Create a contrast between how things seem and how they really are beneath the surface.

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A