Literary Elements

What do you call the time AND location in which a story takes place?

• Main Idea

• Plot

• Setting

• Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What do you call the people, animals, and (living) objects that stories are about?

• Characters

• Plot

• Diction

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The sequence of events that occur in the story (what the story is about) is called _____________.

• Plot

• Theme

• Characters

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Diction is the literary element that means ________________.

• The connections we have with words

• An author's choice of words

• The definition of words

• The common way of speaking with friends

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The author's/narrator's attitude toward their subject is called:

• Theme

• Setting

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage is called:

• Tone

• Plot

• Setting

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

In a story, what is the "theme"?

• What the story is about, like a summary.

• The topic of the text.

• an idea that the author tries to convey through their writing. It is a universal truth about the way the world usually is or the they people usually are.

• The moral, a specific lesson that the character learned.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following might describe the SETTING of a story?

• Grouchy Mr. Ross

• happy and loving

• Mears Middle School in 1997

• love is stronger than fear

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is the SETTING?

One summer day, Esay slept peacefully in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains.

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980s

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Which of the following does NOT create MOOD in a story?

• Setting Description

• Imagery

• Imagination

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4