SPI 0801.8.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement.
SPI 0801.8.2 Identify and analyze the author’s point of view (i.e., first person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-person omniscient).
SPI 0801.8.3 Determine how a story changes if the point of view is changed.
SPI 0801.8.4 Distinguish among different genres (e.g., poetry, drama, biography, novel)
using their distinguishing characteristics.
SPI 0801.8.5 Analyze the development of similar themes across two or more literary texts.
SPI 0801.8.6 Identify and analyze how the author reveals character (i.e., what the author tells us, what the other characters say about him or her, what the character does, what the character says, what the character thinks).
SPI 0801.8.7 Identify and analyze examples of literary elements that shape meaning within context (i.e., flashback, foreshadowing, irony, mood, symbolism, tone).
SPI 0801.8.8 Analyze figurative language (i.e., idiom, metaphor, simile, personification,
hyperbole, pun) within context.
SPI 0801.8.9 Analyze examples of sound devices within context (i.e., rhyme scheme,
alliteration, onomatopoeia, free verse, repetition, internal rhyme, slant rhyme).
SPI 0801.8.10 Identify the kind(s) of conflict present in a literary plot (i.e., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology).
SPI 0801.8.11 Identify and analyze a literary character’s moral dilemma.
SPI 0801.8.12 Recognize and identify words within context that reveal particular time
periods and cultures.
SPI 0801.8.13 Determine the influence of culture and ethnicity on the themes and issues of literary texts.
SPI 0801.8.14 Identify the author’s purpose for writing.
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