Literary Elements Review

The story's central problem

• prediction
• plot
• point of view
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

The most intense or exciting part of a story. 

• climax
• exposition
• resolution
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

You relate the text to something in your own personal life or someone you know.

• text to world
• text to self
• text to text/media
• text to friend

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

Events that build up to the climax of a story.

• falling action
• rising action
• resolution
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Restate the main points of the text in YOUR OWN WORDS.

• inferences
• plot
• resolution
• summary

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

The message, lesson, or moral you get from the story. 

• theme
• main idea
• characterization
• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

Connecting the text to a current event or historical event.

• text to world
• text to self
• text to friend
• text to text/media

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

The final outcome of the story, usually where the conflict is settled (or not settled). 

• exposition
• resolution
• climax
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Using the details in the text to make meaning out of what is not clearly stated.

• drawing conclusions
• conflict
• plot
• main idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

The reason that something is happening.

• cause
• effect
• plot
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3