Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Narrator Chart [Pdf]

A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.

Use this graphic organizer for analyzing setting and its effect on the meaning of any story.

A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.

A graphic organizer for students, laying out the basic outline of a story's plot and allowing students to fill in the necessary details.

A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.

A resource for students in analyzing the point of view for a given piece of literature. Provides a short worksheet and important questions.

Provides an excellent model of a novel analysis. Using Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," this essay provides good commentary and style, as well as helpful notations and aids for student improvement and understanding. Requires Adobe Reader....

An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...

This excellent resource presents a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Minfong Ho's "Clay Marble." Also provides analysis over the novel's background, context, author information, and study questions and aids.

A brief description of symbols in literature, followed by a chart. Students can use the chart to document their understanding of symbolism in a given piece of literature.