1. Author’s Craft
How authors create…

2. What is Author’s Craft?
Author’s craft is how the author uses literary devices and narrative elements to tell a story, persuade, or inform an audience.

3. How do authors do this?
1. They choose how to organize and structure their text.

4. How do authors do this?
2. They use narrative elements (plot, character, setting) effectively.

5. How do authors do this?
3.They use literary elements like pacing and flashbacks to create mystery, tension, or surprise.

6. How do authors do this?
4. They send a message (theme) with their writing.

7. How do authors do this?
5. They carefully choose their words and sentence structure.

8. Allusion
A reference to a historical event, religious symbol or event, or literary work or character

9. Flashback
The interruption of present-tense action to reveal a scene that took place at an earlier time

10. Repetition
Emphasis by reiterating or repeating an event or multiple uses of a word or phrase

11. Foreshadowing Hints that suggest future events in the story
Example: a weapon found in a drawer early in a story might foreshadow a future crime in the story