Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Basically, this standard asks students to understand what makes a story a story. How do we know what its conflict is? How do we know what the characters we are supposed to root for (or boo at) are like? How do we know that Bob absolutely hates gouda? For that last question, we might be analyzing a sentence such as "Bob was on a quest to rid the world of gouda, but there was only one thing standing in his way: the world"—it's a perfect example of a sentence that not only reveals aspects of a character (that Bob hates gouda) but also propels the action, since now we know that the conflict of the story is Bob's quest to rid the world of gouda.