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A diary entry, Reflections of a Seventeen-Year-Old written on November 13th, 1949 by a young teenager named Sylvia Plath. The poem, Slam, Dunk, & Hook written by Yusef Komanyakuu. In both passages, the authors used literary elements and techniques to portray the experience of life through the eyes of a young person. Theme and mood is used by the authors in both passages. Reflections of a Seventeen-Year-Old include at least two elements and techniques. Two elements or techniques are the mood of the passage and the theme of the passage. The mood of Reflections of a Seventeen-Year-Old is frightfulness. The theme of the passage, Reflections of a Seventeen-Year-Old is make the right choices or else you will have to deal with the “consequences”. The author, Sylvia Plath is “afraid of getting older”. She is afraid to get older because, she is “afraid of getting married....