Mrs. Weber’s Reading Class

And

J.K. Rowling’s Imagination Present…

And the ELEMENTS of LITERATURE

Grab a quill.

Grab a scroll of parchment.

The following presentation will test your knowledge of the magical LITERARY ELEMENTS.

Keep notes and ask questions of everything you do not fully understand!

Write down the following LITERARY ELEMENTS:

• FLASHBACK

• CONFLICT

• FORESHADOWING

• IRONY

• MOOD

• SIMILE

• PERSONIFICATION

• METAPHOR

• SYMBOL

• IMAGERY

Use this list to decide which LITERARY ELEMENTS are represented in the following pictures. GOOD LUCK, literature witches and wizards!

Question -- #1

Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are about to partake in a wizard’s duel. Which type of CONFLICT is this?

MAN VS. MAN

Question -- #2

“Little did Harry know that this letter was only thebeginning of the strange and mysterious thingshe would soon experience.”

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

FORESHADOWING

Question -- #3

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

“Harry wiped his glasses clean with his cloak in disbelief. This was it! The strange and mysterious Hogwarts! What would be inside? What incredible things would he see? Would there be ghosts? Harry couldn’t control his excitement.”

MOOD

Question -- #4

Hermione is getting tangled up in the devil’s snare plant vines. Which type of CONFLICT is this?

MAN VS. NATURE

Question -- #5

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

“Dumbledore thought back to the night he first met Harry. It was almost ten years earlier. Harry was no more than a few pounds, but had just defeated the evil Lord Voldemort…”

FLASHBACK

Question -- #6Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented by the entire paragraph below?

“The shadowy towers of Hogwarts were barely visible through the blinding blizzard, and the high-pitched howling of the wind drowned out all other sounds. With each step Harry took, he could feel the soft crunch beneath his boots, and the stinging cold rush across his face. He could taste the cold.”

IMAGERY

Question -- 7

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

“At the horrifying sight before them, Harry and Malfoy stood petrified like statues.”

SIMILE

Question -- #8

Which type of CONFLICT is represented below?

“Hagrid was lost. He tried desperately to remain calm, but even so, a desperate cry began to well up inside him. He couldn’t fight it any longer…”

MAN VS. HIMSELF

Question -- #9

Which type of CONFLICT is represented below?

“Poor Harry had no one. His family couldn’t stand him, kids at school wouldn’t talk to him because of Dudley, teachers didn’t like him. It seemed as if everyone in the world was against him.”

MAN VS. SOCIETY

Question -- #10

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

“Even though Harry defeated evil Lord Voldemort, a member of the Slytherin House, the Sorting Hat considered putting him in Slytherin.”

IRONY

Question -- #11

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

This is the emblem of the Gryffindor House.

SYMBOL

Question -- #12Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented below?

“After Hermione froze Neville with her petrification spell, he was a statue.”

METAPHOR

Question -- #13

Which LIT. ELEMENT is represented by the underlined section of the passage below?

“Dumbledore tried one of Harry’s Bertie Bots Every-Flavored Beans, and had the off luck of Selecting one that tasted like ear wax. The gross flavor jumped out at him, and he knew he would never try another one again.”

PERSONIFICATION

Question -- #14

Which type of CONFLICT is represented below?

“Harry looked out the window helplessly. Although he’d try to fight it, he knew he would eventually have to face Voldemort. No matter how much he didn’t want to, he couldn’t escape this fact. It was his fate.”

MAN VS. FATE

Alright, literature witches and wizards--you’ve done a nice job so far! But now it’s time for…

THE BONUS ROUND!

Bonus Question #1 --

Give TWO examples of FORESHADOWING from short stories we’ve read in class this year.

Bonus Question #2 --

Give Two examples of IRONY from short stories we’ve read in class this year.