Literary Elements

character

• the main person

• the number one thing

• a character or force in conflict

• a person, animal, or imaginary creature in a literary work

Answer explanation

a person, animal, or imaginary creature in a literary work

It can be a talking animal or a creature

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

complication

• causes a plot to become tense or entangled as a result of the conflict

• a struggle between opposing forces

• a character or force in conflict with the main character

• a person, animal, or imaginary creature in a literary work

Answer explanation

causes a plot to become tense or entangled as a result of the conflict

In Snow White, the complication is that the evil queen believes that Snow White is the "fairest" and wants to eliminate her.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

persona

• a second, less important plot within the story

• the voice through which an author tells a story

• sequence of events

• the perspective in a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

dialogue

• the form of talking

• the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group

• interrupts the sequence of events

• a conversation between characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

genre

• the use of clues that suggest events that have not happened

• a division or type of literature

• conversation between characters

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

subplot

• use of clues that help determine what could happen next

• use of conversations in a story or novel

• a second, less important plot within the story

• none of these

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

irony

• surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions that happen in a story

• not funny

• the vantage point in a story

• assertions in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

point of view

• literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions

• the voice through which an author tells a story

• the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told

• the sequence of events

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

plot

• the sequence of events

• a series of unresolved problems

• unanswered questions that author's leave for the reader

• a second, less important plot within a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

dialect

• a conversation between characters

• a form of language spoken by people / characters in a particular region

• use of clues

• form of speaking

Answer explanation

depending on which region you live in, your spoken language has a unique sound which is your "dialect"

"howdy partner"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3