Elements of Literature

The sequence of events in a story

• conflict

• resolution

• setting

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.3A

CCSS.W.7.3C

The central idea, message, or moral of a story

• Theme

• Point of View

• Plot

• Characterization

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CCSS.RL.7.2

The main character or hero of a story

• Static character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

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CCSS.W.7.3A

A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action

• Dynamic character

• Static character

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

The point of view in which a story is told by a character in the story

• 3rd person limited

• 2nd person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 1st person

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character

• Point of view

• Internal conflict

• External conflict

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.W.7.3B

Point of view in which a narrator tells the story and focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

• flashback

• characterization

• conflict

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

When and where a story takes place

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

A struggle between opposing forces, or problem, in a story

• Plot

• Conflict

• Setting

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3