Elements of Literature

The character is...

• Where and when does the story takes place?
• Who tells the story through one character, many characters or the narrator?
• Who is in the story?

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The Point of View is...

• Where and when does the story take place?
• Who tells the story?
• Who is in the story?

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

 Conflict

• What is the highest point in the story?
• Who is in the story?
• What are the problems in the story?

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Theme

• What is the action of the story?
• What is the universal idea or central message?
• a)  What are the events that happen during a story?

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Plot

• a)  How the story is composed to include: Beginning, Middle and End?
  How the story is composed to include: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution?
• a)  How the story is composed to include: Beginning, Middle and End?
•   How the story is composed to include: Exposition, Rising Action, and Irony?

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Setting

• What happens in the story?
• Why the story takes place?
• Where the story takes place?

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Author

• Who is the character in the story?
• Who is the speaker of the story?
• Who is the writer of the story?

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Historical Fiction

• True stories that are about the past.
• Stories from the past and history is brought   to life.
• Stories that are not real, from the past and about history.
  

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Non- Fiction

• Untrue stories written.
• Real stories written
• Stories written in a real setting but are   untrue.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Biography

• True life stories written by the author   himself.
• True life stories written about another’s life
• Made up stories about one’s life.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10