Literary Elements/Devices/FIgurative Devices

The time and place of the action.

• Setting
• Theme
• Plot
• Character

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

The development of a person or animal that takes part in the action of the story.

• Personification
• Theme
• Plot
• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

The sequence of events in a literary work.

• Theme
• Image
• Plot
• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

The central message, moral, or lesson in a literary work.

• Theme
• Context Clues
• Mood
• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

The perspective or vantage point from which a story is told.

• First Person Point-of-View
• Narrator's Point-of-View
• Second Person Point-of-View
• Third Person Point-of-View

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

The narrator is a character in the story an words like “I” “me” “my”

• First Person Point-of-View
• Third Person Point-of-View
• Second Person Point-of-View
• Narrator's Point-of-View

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The narrator is outside of the story and tells the feelings and thoughts of characters. Uses words like “he,she,they."

• First Person Point-of-View
• Second Person Point-of-View
• Third Person Point-of-View
• Narrator's Point-of-View

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A struggle or problem between opposing forces in a story.

• Tone
• Mood
• Plot
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A conflict that takes place within the mind of a character

• Conflict
• External Conflict
• Internal Conflict
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A struggle between a character and an outside force.

• Internal Conflict
• External Conflict
• Conflict
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4