Literary Elements

What is the highest, most suspense-building, part of the story?

• Falling Action
• Setting
• Climax
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What are the main events of the story presented in a sequence by the author?

• Conflict
• Mood 
• Plot
• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What are the events that lead to the resolution?

• Climax
• Conflict
• Rising Action
• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The beginning part of the plot with the information about the setting, characters, and the situation is called the _____________.

• Beginning
• Anecdote
• Plot
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is setting? 

• The time and location in which a story takes place
• A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
• a struggle between two people or things in a short story.
• What you turn on the washer

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is conflict?

• a struggle between two forces
• The time and location in which a story takes place 
• how the author arranges events to develop his basic idea
• The person in a work of fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Example of Character vs Character 

• Batman vs Superman
• Shrek vs the kingdom 
• People from Japan vs a Tsunami 
• A person trying not to cry in public 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Example of Character vs Nature

• Batman vs Superman
• Shrek vs the kingdom 
• People from Japan vs a Tsunami 
• A person trying not to cry in public 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Example of Character vs Self 

• Batman vs Superman
• Shrek vs the kingdom 
• People from Japan vs a Tsunami 
• A person trying not to cry in public 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the main idea?

• What the text is mostly about 
• Facts that support the main idea 
• Description of the cause and effect 
• Key ideas that support the general idea 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2