Literary Vocabulary

Main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work which may be stated directly or indirectly.

• Plot

• Analyze

• Theme

• Cite

To examine critically to bring out essential elements and details

• Setting

• Dialogue

• Cite

• Analyze

a conversation between two people/characters

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Theme

• Summarize

Who the story is about

• Theme

• Characters

• Cite

• Analyze

The time and place in which a story happens

• Plot

• Cite

• Setting

• Summarize

The order of events in a story

• Theme

• Plot

• Characters

• Dialogue

To refer to the text or author in order to support the reader's thinking about the text.

• Theme

• Analyze

• Plot

• Cite

To provide a short, concise explanation of a text's major ideas.

• Summarize

• Plot

• Analyze

• Theme