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Characterization
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Themes
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Setting
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Conflict
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Literary Text Standard
Students enhance their understanding of the human story by reading literary
texts that represent a variety of authors, cultures and eras. They learn to apply
the reading process to the various genres of literature, including fables, folk
tales, short stories, novels, poetry, and drama. They demonstrate their
comprehension by describing and discussing the elements of literature (e.g.,
setting, character and plot), analyzing the author's use of language (e.g., word
choice and figurative language), comparing and contrasting texts, inferring
theme and meaning and responding to text in critical and creative ways.
Strategic readers learn to explain, analyze and critique literary text to achieve
deep understanding.
Name:_______________________________________________________
Date:________________________Period:________________________
Directions: Please fill in the Elements of Fiction diagram below. Please fill in boxes with well-thought
answers. You may use bullets or numbering to fill in the boxes for characterization. But the other
boxes need complete sentences MUST be used. For characterization boxes, please give a full description
of either Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, or Nick Carraway, including, personal data, personality traits,
background influences, etc. The conflict boxes each need to have a separate conflict discussed. Your
answer can either be an overall conflict or an individual conflict for a certain character. Two separate
answers are also needed for the theme boxes. And, finally thoroughly describe the setting in the
appropriate boxes.
**IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK! :) If needed you can enlarge text boxes just
please be sure layout is still neat!
This assignment is worth 56 points. (5 pts. per box & 2 pts. per fill in)
The Great Gatsby:
Elements of Fiction
(FOR STUDENT)
Vocabulary Fill-In
Directions:
Please click and drag appropriate definition to a term's given box. Then, please give one
example of each term used in the The Great Gatsby. 4 This portion of the assignment will be worth 14
points. (2 pts. each)
A common thread or idea throughout a literary work that the author presents to the reader that may be
difficult to understand, moralistic, and require higher level thinking to uncover.
THEME
SYMBOL
A word or object that stands for another word or object. It can be visible to the eye or not.
POINT OF VIEW
A way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader. It is the "vantage" point from how the narrator
passes the story to the reader.
GENRE
A type of literature. Groups of work that share similar characteristics and conventions.
A collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order and
recounted through either telling or writing.
One who tells a story, the speaker or the “voice” of an oral or written work.
A type of language that varies from the norms of literal language, in which words mean exactly what
they say. It does not mean exactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to make an imaginative
leap.
The conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
A literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings, those
that are hidden throughout the course of the story line, through a poem or a speech.
A literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would
actually seem. Many times it is the exact opposite of what it appears to be.
IRONY
NARRATOR
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE