Reading Literature Vocabulary

What is a literary text?

• a story that usually has animals as characters and teaches a lesson or moral

• passages that are stories, dramas, or poems

• the order of events in a story (beginning, middle, and end)

• when and where a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or a location

What is a fable?

• the events in the beginning, middle, and end of the story

• a section of a book

• a story that usually has animals as characters and teaches a lesson or moral

• the not usual meaning of a word or phrase

What is a folktale?

• a traditional story that is usually shared by storytelling; passed down from generation to generation

• the meanings of words and phrases, and how they are used in the story

• the usual meaning of a word

• the people or animals in a story

What is a myth?

• the order of events in a story

• a section of a drama or play

• passages that are stories, dramas, or poems

• a story that is believed by many but is untrue; they are used to explain practices, beliefs, or natural events

What is a central message?

• the idea or theme of the story; also called a moral or lesson

• the opinion of the author

• the character who tells the story in a text from his or her point of view; they are outside of the story

• a section of a poem

What does it mean to recount?

• a section of a book

• a traditional story that is usually shared by storytelling

• to write an explanation of the key details of a passage in the order in which they happened and in a way that includes important information from the story

• the usual meaning of a word

What is the setting?

• when and where a story takes place

• a person or animal in a story

• the order of events in a story

• the events in the beginning, middle, and end of the story

What is a plot?

• passages that are stories, dramas, or poems

• the meanings of words and phrases, and how they are used in the story

• the events in the beginning, middle, and end of the story

• the opinion of the author

What is a character?

• the people or animals in a story

• when and where the story takes place

• a section of a book

• writing an explanation of the key details of a passage in the order in which they happened and in a way that gives all of the important information from the text

What is sequence?

• the character who tells the story in a text from his or her point of view; outside of the story

• a section of a drama or play

• when and where a story takes place

• the order of events in a story