Understanding Fiction and Literary Elements

What is fiction?

• text that describes imaginary events and people; a story that is not true

• true events

• poetry

• writing that is based on facts, real events and real people

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

What is theme?

• the time and place a story happens

• when animals act like humans

• a broad lesson that is repeated in a story

• when characters speak to one another

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What is the setting of The Wind in the Willows?

• All through the Wild Woods during all four seasons

• Only at Rat's house

• Only at Toad Hall

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What are characters?

• the person telling a story

• the person who wrote the story

• the people or animals a story is about

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

What word means the same as "kind of story"?

• personification

• genre

• poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

What is the genre of The Wind in the Willows?

• a mystery

• a poem

• a classic tale

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

All three of the stories we have read: The Wind in the Willows, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, are examples of classic tales.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.7

What is dialogue?

• The time and location that a story takes place

• When a character dies

• When characters are speaking to one another in a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What do you call the person who is telling the story?

• narrator

• announcer

• a character

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is personification?

• Animals acting like humans

• When characters speak to one another

• The broad idea or message that is repeated in a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3