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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 8
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Key Ideas and Details
[RL.8.3] - Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story, poem, or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
- Analysis (Analyze)
In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning. - 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. - Dialogue
In a literary text, conversation between characters that—when effective—advances the action, is consistent with the author’s characterization of the speakers, and provides relief from passages of description. - Drama
Literature in the form of a script intended for performance before an audience; also called theatre or a play when written for the stage. A drama usually presents its story largely through the dialogue and actions of its characters. - Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Poem/poetry
Creative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language, often characterized by a rhyme scheme or by rhythm far more regular than that of prose.
[RL.7.3] -
Analyze how particular elements of a story, poem, or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
[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.