Literacy Elements
A person, being, or animal in a story
What is character?
Instructions in a play that tell actors what to do or where to go
What is stage directions?
A statement someone believes to be true
What is claim?
A short story that teaches a lesson
What is fable?
The big idea or main point of a story or article
What is central Idea?
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
The words characters say to each other in a story or play
What is dialogue?
Why the writer wrote something
What is author's purpose?
Something important that happens in a story
What is event?
Smaller parts inside an act
What is scenes?
A problem or struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
The person who writes a play
what is playwright?
Something that is true and can be proven
What is fact?
The end of the story where the problems get solved
What is resolution?
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph
What is Stanza?
The central idea or message of a text
What is Theme?
The person who tells the story
What is narrator?
What someone thinks or feels; it can’t be proven true
what is opinion?
The part of the story where things start to get exciting
What is rising action?
Words that mean something different than their normal meaning
What is figurative language?