Literary Elements

What is setting?

• The character's personality

• When or when the story takes place

• What happens during a story

What is plot?

• What happens during a story

• Who the story is about

• Where or when a story takes place

What is a protagonist?

• The bad guy; the person causing issues for the other characters

• The good guy; the person who the story is about

• The most exciting part of the story

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is an antagonist?

• The bad guy; the person who is causing issues for other characters

• The good guy; the person who the story is about

• The most exciting part

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is tone?

• Who the story is about

• How the story goes

• How the story sounds

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is point of view?

• Who the story is about

• How the story is told and who is telling the story

• What the author's intentions are

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

What is theme?

• What the author's intentions are; the lesson learned

• What happens during the story

• Alluding to something that hasn't happened yet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is foreshadowing?

• The author's intentions; the lesson learned

• When something represents something else

• Alluding to something that hasn't happened yet

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is symbolism?

• When something represents something else

• When something is expected to happen, but something else occurs

• How the story sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is irony?

• Alluding to something that hasn't happened yet

• When something is expected to happen, but something else occurs

• What the author's intentions are; the lesson learned

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4