Literary Terms

the events in a story

• setting

• plot

• ending

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

when and where a story takes place

• plot

• setting

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

the lesson learned or central idea of the story

• plot

• setting

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

a part in the story in which the characters talk; it has quotation marks around the exact words

• narrator

• dialogue

• fantasy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.W.3.3B

the person telling the story; it may or may not be the character

• dialogue

• narrator

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

a type of fiction story in which there are elements that could not happen in real life

• false

• fantasy

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

giving an animal (or something non human) human characteristics

• perspective

• personification

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

whose eyes or point of view the story is being seen through

• personification

• narrator

• perspective

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

conflict

• the events in the story

• when the narrator is speaking

• the struggle or problem of the story

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

the solution to the conflict or problem in the story; it may or may not be positive

• conflict

• dialogue

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.4.4