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Exam 1 Study Guide
Exam 1 Study Guide
Exam 1 Study Guide
What is fiction?
Elements of fiction
Tone
Plot
Characterization
Setting
Point of view
Theme
because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific
Characters may be given names such as Hope, Pride, Youth, and Charity; they
have few if any personal qualities beyond their abstract meanings. These
personifications are not symbols because, for instance, the meaning of a
merely pathetic. Often what antiheroes learn, if they learn anything at all, is
that the world isolates them in an existence devoid of God and absolute values.
additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.
Symbols are educational devices for evoking complex ideas without having to
resort to painstaking explanations that would make a story more like an essay
than an experience.
Conventional symbols
Contextual symbols
Conflict: The struggle within the plot between opposing forces. The protagonist
engages in the conflict with the antagonist, which may take the form of a
character, plot.
Think about the points of analysis that we discussed for these stories. Look at
the elements of fiction and determine which of the elements are evident in each
of the stories.
Consider the similarities and differences in the stories’ tones, themes, characters,
settings, etc.
What is poetry?
situations.
Elements of poetry
Word choice
Figurative language
o Imagery
o Metaphor
o Simile
o Personification
o Allusion
o Symbol
o Irony
Rhyme—the repetition of the final stressed vowel sound and any sounds
syllables, it is the natural rise and fall of the voice when something is being
similar rhythm
For entertainment
But poetry is written to be heard, not just read from the page to ourselves
I will give you lines from the poems and ask you to identify poet, poem, and an
Fire”
Consider the similarities and differences in the poems’ tones, themes, speakers,
use of figurative language, etc.
What is nonfiction?
Analyzing nonfiction
First read to discover the author’s thesis: “What does the writer wish you
best clues for this are in the introduction and conclusion of the essay in
most cases.
Next, examine the essay’s structure and rhetorical strategies the writer
argumentation)
purpose in writing?
o Details
o Figurative language
Think about the points of analysis that we discussed for these essays. Look at
the elements of fiction and determine which of the elements are evident in each
of the essays.