ELA · Literary terms
Story Elements and Literary Terms (Grades 2–5)
Key reading words like setting, plot, narrator, fable, moral and glossary, with simple meanings.
- 🎓 Grades 2–5
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- 📐 RL.3.5
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character
A person or animal in a story
setting
Where and when a story takes place
plot
The events that happen in a story, in order
problem
What goes wrong for the main character
solution
How the trouble in a story gets fixed
author
The person who wrote the book
illustrator
The person who draws the pictures in a book
title
The name of a book or story
narrator
The one who tells the story
fiction
A made-up story
nonfiction
Writing that gives true facts
poem
Writing in lines that may rhyme and have rhythm
stanza
A group of lines in a poem
rhyme
Words that end with the same sound
fable
A short tale with animals that teaches a lesson
folktale
An old tale passed down by telling it aloud
myth
An ancient tale that explains how something in nature began
moral
The lesson a story teaches
theme
The big message of a story
dialogue
The words characters say to each other
chapter
One part of a longer book
glossary
A list of hard words and meanings at the back of a book
index
An ABC list of topics and page numbers at the back of a book
caption
Words under a picture that explain it
biography
A true account of a person's life written by someone else
autobiography
A true account of a person's life written by that person
genre
A type or kind of writing, like mystery
sequence
The order in which things happen
summary
A short retelling of the main points
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