Literary Analysis Vocabulary

Time and place in which the story is taking place.

• literature
• plot
• round
• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Problem of a story

• Problem
• Conflict
• climax
• solution

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A series of events build toward the point of the climax?

• rising action 
• falling action
• climax
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Static

• the charactor does not change
• the narrator
• complex 
• the character

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Dynamic

• the character does not change
• the narrator 
• the character does change
• the character

Series of events that lead to the end of the story from the climax

• Rising action
• Falling action
• Resoulution
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Climax

• Solution to the problem
• Turning point of the story
• Description
• Evolutio

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• figurative language

• word choice

• literary device

• style

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• hook

• theme

• plot

• literary device

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the perspective from which the events in the story are told

• point of view

• word choice

• voice

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D