Literary Elements and Devices

Take a look at this website. It's going to be crucial for the class. The site contains a run-down of the main literary elements and devices. You'll be expected to know these, to be able to identify them readily, and to understand how they fit together in a work of literature. To get the difference between literary elements and literary devices, think of it this way: literary elements are like the elements on the periodic chart -- they're the building blocks that are required to build stories; literary devices are the techniques, the ways, in other words, that authors make their points to readers, to shake them up, to wake them up, to make them want to read on.