The central or universal idea of a literary text that expresses a truth about human behavior.
What is theme?
A small part of a whole; specific information about the key idea.
What is detail?
The time, place, and context in which a literary text occurs.
What is setting?
The atmosphere or feeling created by a writer in a written text.
What is mood?
A category of literature.
What is genre or literary genre?
A person, thing, animal, or imaginary being in a literary text.
What is character?
An important or essential thought or opinion that supports the intended message of a text.
What is key idea?
The arrangement of scenery, props, and actors that supports the performance of a drama/play.
What is staging?
The author's attitude toward the subject of a text.
What is tone?
A story passed between generations that attempts to explain beliefs, events in nature, or why people behave as they do.
What is a myth?
What is conflict?
Words, phrases, or sentences that provide proof.
What is evidence?
The lines spoken by characters in a fiction story or in a drama/play.
What is dialogue?
Figurative language in which nonhuman things are represented as having human qualities.
What is personification?
The specific techniques, elements, and devices an author uses to develop a piece of writing.
What is author's craft?
The basic sequence of events of a story (e.g., rising action, climax, falling action, resolution).
What is plot?
What is author's purpose?
A single situation or conversation in a play/drama.
What is a scene?
Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices.
What is figurative language?
Narrative text that is imagined and not based on facts.
What is fiction?
An indication of what is to come in a literary text.
What is foreshadowing?
The structure an author uses to present controlling idea(s) and supporting details in a text.
What is organizational pattern?
What are stage directions?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
A conclusion drawn from prior knowledge, evidence or clues.
What is inference?