FL ELA BEST Standards Review

The author writes what the theme is. Fables and folktales often explain the theme at the end of the story.

_____ is the plan or structure of events in the main story.

A text's _______________ includes both text features and the way the ideas in the text are organized.

The structure/feature the author uses can help to develop author's purpose in the text: they give hints as to how .....

Which signal words signify that the author is using the description text feature?

The setting is the time, place, and circumstances of the action in a literary work.

A character's ___________________ is their particular attitude toward or way of regarding something.

What is an underlying message, big idea, or lesson of a talk, book, film, or other work?

What is expressed directly or indirectly through physical descriptions, dialogue, actions, or inner thoughts?

What is the purpose of a summary?

A literary element is a __________ that develops a work of literature.

The reader is immersed into the narrative as a character involved in the story .....

When the narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts of ALL characters.....

What is a synonym for 'astonished'?

The reader has to use inferences, based on the plot, setting, and characters in the story to discover the theme.

Info is presented in sections that begin with a central idea and are followed by elaboration, characteristics, etc.

The FL ELA BEST standards are optional.

Themes are not one or two-word topics; they are ____________________ that communicate the author's message.

Themes are ______________; they can be applied to anyone, anywhere, regardless of cultural differences,

What is the type of narration used in the text called? For example, 1st, 2nd, 3rd person limited or omniscient.

Authors often use more than one type of structure or feature in their texts.

The type of narration used (as in first, second, or third [person narration).

The narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from his/her point of view .....

What are the emotions a piece of writing arouses in a reader through diction, figurative language and other word choice?

What can we learn from the way characters' interact or respond to conflict?

The similarities and/or differences of two concepts or ideas are presented.

The narrator is outside the story, but only knows the thoughts of one character .....

What is the author or speaker's attitude toward the subject, usually evident through diction?