Elements Of Litterature Grades 68 1st Edition Linda Armstrong by Linda Armstrong, Mary Dieterich, Sarah M. Anderson, Margaret Brown instant download after payment.

The Common Core Curriculum asks teachers to break down the elements of good writing, enabling our students to comprehend works of fiction and literary nonfiction more fully.
Students already understand how to locate specific details in a story or passage. Often, young readers merely look for key words from the question to hone in on an answer. Finding the main idea is a little more difficult, but it is relatively easy to teach. Helping students to ferret out structuring principles such as comparison and contrast, sequence, or cause and effect can be trickier, but in these instances, readers are still looking for what can be found, literally, on the page.
Subtle elements of literature, however, can be much more difficult to explain. Some of them are actually perverse.When using connotation, allegory, figures of speech, irony, satire, and parody, authors often intend to impart meanings diametrically opposed to the words they put on the page.
When using symbolism, motifs, and analogies, writers use situations, creatures, and objects in ways that operate on several psychological levels. Like an image in a dream, a horse might be an actual, literal horse, but it might, simultaneously, stand for power, obsolescence, or even poetry, depending on the story.
Further, each of these devices differs from the others in purpose and tone. For students used to pinpointing concrete details or main ideas, this can be very confusing. Irony, satire, parody, and symbolism are most often used in fiction, but they also appear in nonfiction. For example, both history and science abound with irony. Summer camp attendees delight in parodies of folk songs, and teens thrive on sarcasm (the most extreme and common form of verbal irony). These literary elements can appear in single sentences or phrases but more often depend on larger structures, sometimes entire novels, for full effect.
To help students recognize each of these important devices, Common Core: Elements of Literature offers examples...