Access Point #: LAFS.1112.RL.2.AP.5aArchived Access Point

Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning.
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Essential Understandings

  • Identify elements of a story’s plot (e.g., exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.) Identify the author’s effect (e.g., tension, suspense and surprise).
  • Identify the overall meaning.
  • Identify how the author's choice of structure helps develop the meaning of the story.
General Information
Number: LAFS.1112.RL.2.AP.5a
Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14

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