Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.

• Literary Text

• Genre

• Poem

• Drama

To infer means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage. By contrast, an explicit idea or message is stated directly by the author. The author tells the readers exactly what they need to know.

• Inference

• Allusion

• Literary Text

• Pattern of Events

The lesson or message of a literary passage

• Plot

• Setting

• Theme

• Prose

To give the main events of a passage in the order in which they happen.

• Inference

• Plot

• Traditional Literature

• Summarize

A person or thing in a work of literature.

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Dialogue

Where and when a literary passage takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the location

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Dialogue

The events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the passage.

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Dialogue

Literary passages about popular beliefs in different cultures.

• Literary Text

• Allusion

• Mythology

• Prose

An indirect reference to something.

When an author refers to something without mentioning it explicitly.

• Drama

• Allusion

• Point of View

• Traditional Literature

A form of writing that uses ordinary language. It is the opposite of poetry.

• Poem

• Drama

• Mythology

• Prose