Lesson 4: Analyze Literature

A reference to a text, event, or people from the past

• Allusion

• Analyze

• Antiquated Language

• Modern Literature

To compare and contrast two or more things

• Analyze

• Allusion

• summary

• traditional literature

Words or phrases that aren't common in language today

• Antiquated Language

• Traditional Language

• Modern Language

• Slang Language

Literature written in the present or recent past

• Modern Literature

• Traditional Literature

• Antiquated Language

• Post Modern Literature

Written long ago, antiquated language, states moral lesson

• Modern Literature

• Traditional Literature

• Antiquated Language

• Post Modern Literature

the perspective from which the story is told (first, second, third)

• Analyze

• Allusion

• summary

• point of view

A retelling of the most important parts of what was read.

• Analyze

• Allusion

• summary

• traditional literature

A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.

• myth

• folktale

• fable

• poem

A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition

• myth

• folktale

• fable

• poem

A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters

• myth

• folktale

• fable

• poem