Poetry

Terms

1. total effect: overall impact of a poem on the reader
2. form: distinctive way words of a poem are arranged

The Writing Process, Parts of the Essay and MLA Format

The Writing Process

• The writing process can be divided into 6 main stages: pre-writing, shaping the essay, first draft, peer review, revision, and final draft.
1. Pre-Writing: The process of thinking of the concrete details before organizing an essay into paragraphs.  Tools like conceptual maps, webs, and color-coding should be used to overcome writer's block and find a voice.
2. Shaping the Essay: The process of outlining an essay by stating a thesis (must include), topic sentences, concrete details and commentary ideas.
• Outlining makes the writing process easier, helps organize ideas, portrays the content in a logical way, enables writing to show a relationship between ideas, gives a roadmap of a writing, and clarifies divisions, boundaries, and groups.

Elements of a Novel and Literary Techniques

Elements of a Novel

• A plot is the sequence of events in a story or the storyline.  It consists of:

• Exposition, which is when the characters and their goals are introduced.
• In The Hunger Games, it would be the introduction to the story in setting and storyline.
• In Siddhartha, it would be when he leaves his home to go with the Samanas.