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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 11-12

Strand - Reading Literature

Cluster - Key Ideas and Details

[RL.11-12.3] - Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story, poem, or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

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  • Character
    Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts.
  • Characterization (Character development)
    Method(s) an author uses to portray a character. Four basic methods of characterization are (a) describing a character’s physical appearance; (b) revealing a character’s nature through her or his speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions; (c) revealing a character’s nature through the speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions of other characters; and (d) commenting directly on a character’s nature.
  • Literary text
    Work of fiction in narrative, dramatic, or poetic form; also literary nonfiction.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Setting
    Time and place of the action in a narrative, drama, or poem.
  • Structure
    Broadly, anything composed of parts arranged together in some way; in language arts, the relationships or organization of the component parts in a literary text.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RL.9-10.3
    Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

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