ELA21.8.3
Analyze how authors use key literary elements, including setting, plot, theme, characters, internal and external conflict, dialogue, and point of view, to contribute to the meaning and purpose of a text, using text evidence as support.
Analyze how authors use key literary elements, including setting, plot, theme, characters, internal and external conflict, dialogue, and point of view, to contribute to the meaning and purpose of a text, using text evidence as support.
Unpacked Content
UP:ELA21.8.3
Vocabulary
- Literary elements
- Setting
- Plot
- Theme
- Characters
- Internal conflict
- External conflict
- Dialogue
- Points of view
- Text evidence
Knowledge
Students know:
- Authors of prose and poetry use literary elements, such as setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view, throughout a text to develop and/or enhance the meaning of the text.
- An author's use of literary elements can indicate the author's purpose for writing the text.
- Analysis of a text should be supported with text evidence from the writing.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the setting, plot, characters, theme, internal and external conflict, dialogue, and point of view in literary text.
- Analyze how literary elements contribute to the meaning and purpose of literary text.
- Support their analysis of literary elements with textual evidence.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Prose and poetry contain common literary elements, such as setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view.
- Literary elements contribute to the meaning and purpose of literary text.
- When they analyze a text, they should include text evidence to support their claims.
