Understanding roles of 'Element' and 'TypeMirror' in `UnmodifiableCollection`

For the below given code,

static class UnmodifiableCollection<E> implements Collection<E>, Serializable {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1820017752578914078L;

        final Collection<? extends E> c;

        UnmodifiableCollection(Collection<? extends E> c) {
            if (c==null)
                throw new NullPointerException();
            this.c = c;
        }

        public int size()                   {return c.size();}
        public boolean isEmpty()            {return c.isEmpty();}
        public boolean contains(Object o)   {return c.contains(o);}
        public Object[] toArray()           {return c.toArray();}
        public <T> T[] toArray(T[] a)       {return c.toArray(a);}
        public String toString()            {return c.toString();}

        public Iterator<E> iterator() {
           ...
        }

        public boolean add(E e) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
        public boolean remove(Object o) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }

        public boolean containsAll(Collection<?> coll) {
            return c.containsAll(coll);
        }
        public boolean addAll(Collection<? extends E> coll) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
        public boolean removeAll(Collection<?> coll) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
        public boolean retainAll(Collection<?> coll) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
        public void clear() {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }

    }

I would like to understand,

How to identify TypeElement, ExecutableElement, VariableElement roles of javax.lang.model.element package?

How to identify DeclaredType, WildcardType, ExecutableType, MirrorType roles of javax.lang.model.type package?

Note: element & type is meta level facility, which is different from traditional reflection system