Fictional/Literary Texts

What are literary texts?

• Passages that inform or explain

• Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems

• Passages that argue or persuade the reader of something.

What is the theme?

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage.

• To have this directly stated in a passage as support

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

• The lesson or life message.

What is the plot?

• The order of a series of events that form a story.

• The way the author develops characters over the course of a passage.

• The where and when a story takes places (including the time of day, season, or location).

• The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.

What is characterization?

• The order of a series of events that form a story.

• The way the author develops characters over the course of a passage.

• The where and when a story takes places (including the time of day, season, or location).

• The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.

What is setting?

• The order of a series of events that form a story.

• The way the author develops characters over the course of a passage.

• The where and when a story takes places (including the time of day, season, or location).

• The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.

What is resolution?

• The order of a series of events that form a story.

• The way the author develops characters over the course of a passage.

• The where and when a story takes places (including the time of day, season, or location).

• The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.

What is indirect characterization?

• This occurs when a text tells you explicitly about a character

• This occurs when the text has the reader make an inference about a character

• The main character in a story

• The person in opposition to the main character in a story

What is direct characterization?

• This occurs when a text tells you explicitly about a character

• This occurs when the text has the reader make an inference about a character

• The main character in a story

• The person in opposition to the main character in a story

What is a protagonist?

• This occurs when a text tells you explicitly about a character

• This occurs when the text has the reader make an inference about a character

• The main character in a story

• The person in opposition to the main character in a story

What is a antagonist?

• This occurs when a text tells you explicitly about a character

• This occurs when the text has the reader make an inference about a character

• The main character in a story

• The person in opposition to the main character in a story