7th Grade ELA DSVs

A specific style of literature.

• Genre

• Plot

• Author's Craft

• Characterization

The main character(s) in a work of literature.

• Characterization

• Narrator

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

The series of related events that make up a story.

• Conflict

• Rising Action

• Genre

• Plot

A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces - usually a protagonist and an antagonist.

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Allusion

• Complications

A conflict with a character an an outside force.

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Character vs. Self

• Climax

A struggle within a character.

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

The time and location of the selection.

• Expostion

• Connotation

• Point of View

• Setting

Used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters, inciting incident, etc. to the audience.

• Falling Action

• Expostion

• Resolution

• Climax

Part of the story where plot becomes increasingly complicated leading up to the climax or turning point in the story.

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Exposition

An intensification of the conflict in a story; it builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary conflict within a story.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Complications