LITERARY ELEMENTS in FICTION

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LITERARY ELEMENTS in FICTION

• Language and Mood

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Language

• Dialect language of a particular group of
  people
• Geographic
• Social

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Imagery

• Appeals to our five senses
• Taste
• Touch
• Sight
• Sound
• Smell

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Language

• Figurative language
• Personification
• Trees bowed before the wind.
• Simile
• The man looked like a marshmallow.
• Metaphor
• Her presence was a ray of light.

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Language

• Onomatopoeia snap, crackle, pop
• Alliteration Susie sat silently.
• Consonance apples and maples please people
• Rhyme His aim was to blame the dame.
• Assonance The owl came out of the house.
• Rhythm Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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Language

• Puns play on words (usually cheesy)
• Hyperbole - exaggeration
• Allusion reference to something outside the
  current literary work
• Symbol a person, object, situation, or action
  which can be taken literally and symbolically

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Mood or Tone

• The attitude or feelings a reader gets from the
  authors words
• Humorous - Mysterious
• Straight-forward - Exciting
• Creepy - Boring