Reading Standard VI, Literary Skills
Lesson 610, Techniques of Prose and Drama
Identifying the elements of fiction (plot, setting, theme)
Analyzing the effectiveness of complex elements of plot, such as setting, major events, problems, conflicts, and resolutions
Defining/Identifying climax, technical climax, and dramatic climax in a given piece of writing.
Defining and identifying types of conflicts, internal conflict (man v. himself), and external conflict (man v. man, man v. nature, man v. society, and man v. fate)
Comparing and contrasting conflict in two or more texts
Evaluating an author’s use of mood
Defining/determining tone from analysis of word choice (diction), setting, characterization
Defining flashback
Defining foreshadowing
Defining dialogue
Evaluating an author’s use of aside
Evaluating an author’s use of soliloquy
Evaluating an author’s use of irony