Literary Devices and Editing

Literary devices are tricks that authors use to help create images in our little brains. Have you included them in your novel?

In your notebook, today:
1. List at least 4 features you like to see in novels, such as, suspense, humor, surprises, dialogue that shows without telling, details about setting and character, interesting subplots, flashbacks, flash-forwards, or plot twists.
2. After you have listed the items, use one color to circle the features you included in your novel, and another color to circle the items you didn't use.
3. Then, name three ways you plan to enhance the features you did include.
4. What literary devices exist in your novel?
5. Where can you include more? And what types of literary devices do you need to include?

Finally, you are ready to edit. Now that you are done making big changes to your novel, use the following list to help you edit your novel:
1. Convert your Google Doc to Word
2. Spell Check
3. Change i to I
4. Find and Replace the following words:
    a. evil
    b. nice
    c. stupid
    d. awesome
    e. fun
    f. good
    g. bad
    h. any word you know you tend to overuse
5. Include at least 2 of each of the following:
    a. opening adjective
    b. opening adverb
    c. delayed adjective
    d. delayed adverb