Literary Elements Terms

Theme

Definition: a unifying idea or image repeated or developed throughout a piece of work

Example: In Romeo and Juliet, the theme of the movie was love and tradgedy.

Showing vs. Telling

1. The room was a mess.
- It was a disaster of a room. There were heaps of inanimate objects strewn across the room. I couldn't decipher what was what. The room was an eye sore to look at.

2. I was surprised.
- I was in utter shock. My eyes popped right out of my eyes, and my mouth was open as wide as the sea is big. I was at a lost for words.

10 Events in My Life

1) When I was about 5 years old the skin on my ears grew over my earring because I never took them out, and my dad had to peel the skin off and all I remember was there was blood everywhere, I was crying and screaming the whole time, and that it hurt really, really bad.

2) When I was in 5th grade, my grandma, the only grandparent I ever knew, died.

3) The day my best friend since the day I was born moved to Brookfield. I hardly see her anymore.

4) 8th grade class trip for D.C.

5) 8th grade graduation.

6) The weekend my family and I had to move out of the house I had lived in for 14 years.

7) The day I made varsity volleyball as a freshman.

8) My first day of high school. We were still moving the day I started and I was stressed out about that, I was stressing about volleyball and starting high school was something totally new and strange to me.

9) My very first volleyball game on varsity. I started! (and we won)

10) Freshman retreat. One of the greatest experiences of my life.