Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.

Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate character in a variety of fiction:

Note: Character may also be called narrator or speaker.

• the actions, motives, dialogue, emotions/feelings, traits, and relationships among characters within fictional text
• the relationship between characters and other components of a text
• the development by authors of complex characters and their roles and functions within a text

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate setting in a variety of fiction:

• the relationship between setting and other components of the text (character, plot, and other key literary elements)

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate plot in a variety of fiction:

Note: Plot may also be called action.

• elements of the plot (e.g. exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and/or resolution)
• the relationship between elements of the plot and other components of the text
• how the author structures plot to advance the action

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of fiction:

• the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
• comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
• the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
• the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate point of view in a variety of fiction:

• the point of view of the narrator as first person or third person point of view
• the impact of point of view on the meaning of the text as a whole

Identify, explain, and analyze the structure of poems and sound devices.

Identify and/or explain stated or implied main ideas and relevant supporting details from a text.

Note: Items may target specific paragraphs.