Elements of Literature

The sequence of events in a story

• conflict

• resolution

• setting

• plot

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CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The central idea, message, or moral of a story

• Theme

• Point of View

• Plot

• Characterization

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

When and where a story takes place

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Theme

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• Plot

• Conflict

• Setting

• Theme

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The beginning of a story where characters and setting are introduced

• Rising action

• resolution

• plot

• exposition

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The most intense part of a story's plot, also called the turning point

• exposition

• falling action

• climax

• protagonist

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The part of a story's plot where the problems begin to build

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

The very end of a traditional story's plot, where all the loose ends are tied up

• Falling action

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Climax

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CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which story element is the focus of the passage below?

"The sun flickered on the endless waves just as it always did. The wind blew just as steadily as it always had. Yet everything had changed. They had been rescued from the island..."

(from Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus)

• Conflict

• Characters

• Plot

• Setting

• Point of View

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

When and where

• Theme

• Climaxx

• Setting

• Plot

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3