Summarizing Fiction

Where and when the story takes place is known as the...

• Setting

• Character

• Theme

• Plot

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.3

The person or animal that takes part in the action of the story.

• Setting

• Character

• Theme

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.3

True or False: Characters can only be humans.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

What is the setting of the passage below?
One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion. 

• 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 1980's

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The events that happen in a story. These include rising action, the climax, etc.

• Theme

• Plot

• Character

• Internal Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

A struggle between a character and an outside force.

• Internal Conflict

• Theme

• External Conflict

• Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

External conflicts include all of the following EXCEPT:

• Character vs Nature

• Character vs Character

• Character vs Self

• Character vs Society

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A struggle that happens inside a characters mind. Often, the character is trying to make a decision.

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Theme

• Character Traits

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

These are adjectives (descriptive words) that describe a character's personality.

• Personification

• Plot

• Character Traits

• Conflicts

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

This is when an author goes back in time inside of a story to tell the reader about something that happened in the past.

• Foreshadowing

• Conflict

• Flashback

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.5