Types of Literature
Literary Elements
Ladder A
Ladder B
Ladder C
100
This type of literature always has a moral.
A fable
100
the characters.
Who are the actors in a story?
100
Where do you begin when completing a Jacob's Ladder?
What is the bottom rung?
100
What is a paragraph that retells the main events of a story?
What is a summary?
100
Identifying a major theme or ideas throughout the story.
What is theme or concept?
200
This type of literature explains why something happens.
Myth
200
the plot
What are the sequence of events in a story called?
200
What is restating the lines using your own words?
What is paraphrasing?
200
In classifying different aspects of a story, you put the different details these.
What are categories?
200
Predicting character actions after the story in finished.
What are implications or consequences?
300
This type of literature often uses figurative language?
poetry
300
the setting.
What is where the story takes place called?
300
What are the plot, characters, setting, etc. called?
What are literary elements?
300
Using your won knowledge and evidence from the text, you can make these judgments.
What are inferences?
300
Making a general statement about the meaning of a story, using evidence from the text to support your ideas.
What is generalization?
400
This type of literature is real.
What is nonfiction?
400
the conflict
What is the problem in the story called?
400
What are a list of facts about a character or setting?
What are details?
400
This is categorizing different aspects of the story.
What are classifications?
400
Creating something new using what you have learned.
What is Creative Synthesis?
500
This type of literature is handed down from generation to generation, it was often told, not written.
What are folktales?
500
the resolution.
What is the part of the story in which the problem is solved called?
500
What is listing events in the order they occured?
What is sequencing?
500
Identifying how one act in a story results in another action.
What is cause and effect?
500
A reading comprehension program that focuses on using higher-level thinking.
What is Jacob's Ladder?
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