Literary Elements Of A Good Story

A Good Story is an Effective Story
“High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.” - John Mayer. A story is more appealing to the audience and the reader when something is being described in detail like the John Mayer quote about high school and sporks. Also, when using literary elements, that pulls the reader in because they want to know what is being said or talked about. It puts a picture into the reader’s minds. Stories that start with facts, and then adds literary elements like hyperboles, metaphors and symbolism helps compose the story to make it more well-rounded. It is effective in its content and is distinct from other stories.
Some people might say that it is unimportant to start a story off with facts. Others might say that it is important to start a …show more content…
But others think that what the characters see is more important in creating an effective story. But a good story starts with facts, and then adds literary elements such as hyperbole, metaphors, symbolism, and or imagery. This is the strongest and most powerful way to start a story. Here are so reasons why those literary elements make up a good story. First of all, it gives the read a better understanding and a better picture in their mind of what the story is about. If you use emotions to start with a story, it's hard for the reader to put a picture in their mind of what's going on in the story. But if you use imagery like in the book The Things They Carried for an example “But the worst part,” he would've said quietly, “was the smell. Partly it was the river- a dead-fish smell -but it was something else,