Analyzing Literary Elements in Fiction
Analyzing Literary Elements in Fiction
Objectives
Students will analyze literary elements in fiction. Students will:
- identify literary elements of fiction, focusing on character and events.
- analyze and interpret literary elements to support comprehension of literary fiction.
Essential Questions
- How does interaction with the text provoke thinking and response?
- How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
- What is this text really about?
Vocabulary
- Characterization: The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.
- Fiction: Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life, but their ultimate form and configuration are creations of the author.
- Literary Elements: The essential techniques used in literature (e.g., character, setting, plot, theme).
- Event: Something that takes place in a story.
- Evidence: Support for a response.
Duration
45–90 minutes/1–2 class periods
Prerequisite Skills
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Materials
- Pigsty by Mark Teague. Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004. Note: Any other picture book or text that has a character with clearly identifiable feelings demonstrated throughout the book may be substituted.
- Alternative books should include literature that has literary elements in fiction focusing on character and events. Suggested titles include the following:
- Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone. HarperCollins, 1997.
- Charlie Hits It Big by Deborah Blumenthal. HarperCollins, 2008.
- The Remarkable Farkle McBride by John Lithgow. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003.
- a variety of short literary fiction texts or picture books so that each student or pair of students has one. Suggested titles include the following:
- The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001.
- A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004.
Teachers may substitute other books to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity.
- student copies of the Events, Feelings, Actions Chart (L-4-1_Events, Feelings, Actions Chart.doc)
- index cards
- pencils
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Final 03/01/2013