Lesson 5: Reading Authors

What You Will Learn

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following:

1. Recognize an author’s style.
2. Locate conflict and resolution.
3. Identify climax.
4. Appreciate how authors find ideas for stories.
5. Use active reading strategies to analyze fiction literature.
6. Identify elements of literature in fiction.
7. Define and identify verb tenses and the following types of verbs: action, linking, main, helping, and irregular.
8. Define new vocabulary words.