Literary Terms

What is the time and place of a story?

• theme
• plot
• setting
• characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is writing that is not factual?

• biography
• fiction
• nonfiction
• autobiography

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

What are the problems or struggles in a story?

• conflict
• plot
• fiction
• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What are the series of events that tell what happen in a story?

• plot
• setting
• characterization
• fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is a reference to something well known such as the Bible or mythology?

• theme
• conflict
• plot
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

What is the central idea of a story?

• plot
• theme
• setting
• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is an incident in the story where an author goes back in time to explain something that happened earlier?

• flashback
• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the vantage point from which a story is told?

• foreshadowing
• symbol
• plot
• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

What is the story of a person's life as told by him/herself?

• autobiography
• biography

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

What is the story of a person's life as told by someone else?

• biography
• autobiography

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10