1. Literary Elements
Romeo & Juliet

2. Answers to “ Do Now” 1. Early 1500’s in Verona, Italy
2. Telling Romeo to forget about Rosaline
3. They were having a party
4. Their families were feuding
5. 13 going on 14

3. 6. That she’s old enough to get married.
7. She wanted Juliet to meet Paris.
She asked Juliet to read his face.
8. Get to know him well and see what kind of person Paris was, if be able to tell whether or not she liked him.

4. Character
A character is a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

5. Antagonist
The Antagonist is a character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.

6. Protagonist
The Protagonist is the main character in a literary work

7. MOOD
Mood, or atmosphere, is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Writer’s use many devices to create mood, including images, dialogue, setting, and plot.

8. Plot
Plot is the sequence of events. The first event causes the second, the second causes the third, and so forth. In most novels, dramas, short stories, and narrative poems, the plot involves both characters and a central conflict.

9. Plot Line Climax Rising action Falling action Exposition
Conflict introduced
Resolution

10. Exposition
The Exposition is the introduction. It is the part of the work that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation.

11. Rising Action
Rising Action is the part of the plot that begins to occur as soon as the conflict is introduced. The rising action adds complications to the conflict and increases reader interest.

12. Climax
The Climax is the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in the plot of a narrative. The climax typically comes at the turning point in a story or drama.

13. Falling Action
Falling Action is the action that typically follows the climax and reveals its results.

14. Resolution
The Resolution is the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict.

15. Conflict
Conflict is the struggle between opposing forces in a story or play. There are two types of conflict that exist in literature.

16. Flashback
A flashback is a literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events.

17. Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is the author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.

18. Suspense
Suspense is the growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature. It is a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events.

19. Point of View
Point of View is the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told. It is the relationship of the narrator to the story.
First-person is told by a character who uses the first-person pronoun “I”.
Third-person limited point of view is the point of view where the narrator uses third- person pronouns such as “he” and “she” to refer to the characters.

20. Setting
The setting of a literary work is the time and place of the action. The setting includes all the details of a place and time – the year, the time of day, even the weather. The place may be a specific country, state, region, community, neighborhood, building, institution, or home.

21. Style Style is the distinctive way in which an author uses language.
Word choice, phrasing, sentence length, tone, dialogue, purpose, and attitude toward the audience and subject can all contribute to an author’s writing style.

22. Theme
The theme of a literary work is its central message, concern, or purpose. A theme can usually be expressed as a generalization, or general statement, about people or life.

23. Tone
Tone is a reflection of a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work. Tone may be communicated through words and details that express particular emotions and that evoke and emotional response from the reader.

24. Oxymoron
An Oxymoron is a figure of speech that is a combination of seemingly contradictory words. Examples: Same difference Pretty ugly Roaring silence

25. Irony
A technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated

26. Answers to Class Work 1. irony 8. tone 2. foreshadowing 9. style
3. mood
10. point of view
4. flashback
11. exposition
5. suspense
12. resolution
6. setting
13. climax
7. oxymoron
14. plot

27. 19. protagonist
15. rising action
20. antagonist
16. falling action
17. theme
18. conflict