Reading Scope and Sequence, Techniques of Prose and Drama

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

 

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