diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index 99d7e8b..719121f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ Functions
    Comment element factory.  This factory function creates a special element
    that will be serialized as an XML comment by the standard serializer.  The
    comment string can be either a bytestring or a Unicode string.  *text* is a
-   string containing the comment string.  Returns an element instance
+   string containing the comment string.  Returns an :class:`Element` instance
    representing a comment.
 
    Note that :class:`XMLParser` skips over comments in the input
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ Functions
 .. function:: iselement(element)
 
    Checks if an object appears to be a valid element object.  *element* is an
-   element instance.  Returns a true value if this is an element object.
+   :class:`Element` instance.  Returns a true value if this is an element object.
 
 
 .. function:: iterparse(source, events=None, parser=None)
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ Functions
    PI element factory.  This factory function creates a special element that
    will be serialized as an XML processing instruction.  *target* is a string
    containing the PI target.  *text* is a string containing the PI contents, if
-   given.  Returns an element instance, representing a processing instruction.
+   given.  Returns an :class:`Element` instance, representing a processing instruction.
 
    Note that :class:`XMLParser` skips over processing instructions
    in the input instead of creating comment objects for them. An
@@ -572,14 +572,14 @@ Functions
 
 .. function:: SubElement(parent, tag, attrib={}, **extra)
 
-   Subelement factory.  This function creates an element instance, and appends
+   Subelement factory.  This function creates an :class:`Element` instance, and appends
    it to an existing element.
 
    The element name, attribute names, and attribute values can be either
    bytestrings or Unicode strings.  *parent* is the parent element.  *tag* is
    the subelement name.  *attrib* is an optional dictionary, containing element
    attributes.  *extra* contains additional attributes, given as keyword
-   arguments.  Returns an element instance.
+   arguments.  Returns an :class:`Element` instance.
 
 
 .. function:: tostring(element, encoding="us-ascii", method="xml", *, \
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ Element Objects
    .. method:: find(match, namespaces=None)
 
       Finds the first subelement matching *match*.  *match* may be a tag name
-      or a :ref:`path <elementtree-xpath>`.  Returns an element instance
+      or a :ref:`path <elementtree-xpath>`.  Returns an :class:`Element` instance
       or ``None``.  *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix
       to full name.
 
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ ElementTree Objects
 
       Replaces the root element for this tree.  This discards the current
       contents of the tree, and replaces it with the given element.  Use with
-      care.  *element* is an element instance.
+      care.  *element* is an :class:`Element` instance.
 
 
    .. method:: find(match, namespaces=None)
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ TreeBuilder Objects
    can use this class to build an element structure using a custom XML parser,
    or a parser for some other XML-like format.  *element_factory*, when given,
    must be a callable accepting two positional arguments: a tag and
-   a dict of attributes.  It is expected to return a new element instance.
+   a dict of attributes.  It is expected to return a new :class:`Element` instance.
 
    .. method:: close()