Grade 6 Literary Terms

A person, an animal, or even a machine in a story.

• plot
• setting
• character 
• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

A series of related events in a story, one growing out of another.

• conflict
• external conflict
• internal conflict
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

The leading character, hero, or heroine of a literary work.

• antagonist
• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

The character who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero or protagonist of a literary work.

• protagonist
• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

A character's struggle with another person, or with a force of nature (a tornado, a bear, an icy mountain path).

• external conflict
• internal conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The character who tells the story to the audience.

• theme
• mood
• narrator
• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

The vantage point from which a story is told (who is telling the story?)

• point of view
• mood
• narrator
• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

the way the story makes the reader feel

• theme
• mood
• narrator
• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

The main idea the story expresses about life and people. What the author intends to say to the reader by writing the story. The message that we take away from the story.

• theme
• mood
• setting
• narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

A struggle that takes place within a character's mind (usually a decision or a choice has to be made).

• external conflict
• internal conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.8.3