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Standard 4: Reading Applications – Literary Text

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A.  Analyze interactions between characters in literary text and how the interactions affect the plot.

 

1.   Identify and explain an author’s use of direct and indirect characterization, and ways in which characters reveal traits about themselves, including dialect, dramatic monologues and soliloquies.

 

B.  Explain and analyze how the use of setting conflict, character, or background impacts a literary text.

 

 

2.   Analyze the influence of setting in relation to other literary elements.

4a.  Evaluate the point of view used in a literary text.

4b.  Identify and analyze how first person, omniscient, and third person point of view affects the readers’ interpretation of the text.

 

C.  Identify structural elements in plot including exposition, setting, complication, climax and resolution.

 

 

3a.  Explain how an author uses elements of plot to pace the events in literary text.

3b.  Identify ways in which authors use conflicts, parallel plots and subjects in literary texts.

 

D.  Identify similar recurring themes across different works.

5.   Interpret universal themes across different works by the same author and different authors.

 

E.   Analyze the use of a genre to express a theme or topic.

6.   Analyze how an author’s choice of genre affects the expression of a theme or topic.

 

F.   Identify and analyze how an author uses figurative language, sound devices and literary techniques to shape plot, set meaning and develop tone.

7.   Read poetry of varying styles.

8.   Define and identify types of irony, including verbal, situational and dramatic used in literary texts.

11.  Identify sound devices, including alliteration, assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia, used in literary texts.

 

G.  Explain techniques used by authors to develop styles.

 

 

 

7.   Explain how foreshadowing and flashback are used to shape plot in a literary text.

10.  Explain how authors use symbols to create broader meanings.

12. Identify use of mythological references in literature, music and advertising.

13.  Analyze selections of mythology in order to   recognize literary allusions in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

14.  Understand the elements of Elizabethan theater.

 

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