Realistic Fiction Vocab

In a piece of narrative text, what is the "theme"?

• What the story is about
• The topic of the text
• A message the author is trying to get across to the reader
• Where and when the story happens

Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story?

• how a character is feeling
• a "life lesson" the main character learns
• a big idea that people from any culture or any place can understand
• the moral of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

Plot

• The lesson  learned
• The events in a story
• Support the main idea

Genre

• The break apart
• Type of text
• For or against

Analyze

• To break apart
• An educated guess
• Proof

Main idea

• What the story is all about
• The lesson learned
• Read between the lines

Supporting details

• Backs up the main idea
• The events in a story
• To tell orally

Infer

• the lesson learned
• to break apart
• read between the lines

Background knowledge

• To state briefly the main points
• Knowledge based on prior exposure and experiences
• An action that brings about a result

What is the setting?

• Where and when the story takes place
• The main character's home
• Where the author wrote the story
• A place to sit