Literary Terms

Your background knowledge that you already have.

• schema
• setting
• characters
• inference

The people or animals in a story or drama

• schema
• conflict
• characters
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

A shorter version of a story

• challenge
• plot
• summary
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.SL.3.2

climax

• the hero of a story
• the most exciting part of the story.
• tell how things are alike
• tell how things are different

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

when a character has to perform a difficult task

• challenge
• plot
• antagoinist
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

conflict

• the hero of a story
• the villian of a story 
• how things are different
• the problem that needs to be solved

quest

• when a character has to perform a difficult task
• an educated guess
• when a character goes on a journey in search of something.
• all of the events that happen in a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.4

An educated guess

• quest
• schema
• plot
• inference

Compare

• how things are different
• how things are alike
• how things change
• an educated guess

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RL.3.9

The hero of a story.

• antagonist
• protagonist
• plot
• quest

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3