Literary Terminology Terms

a category or type of literature

• theme

• literature

• genre

• tone

the 3 criteria of a short story (developed  by Edgar Allen Poe)

• create one emotional effect
• short enough to be read in one sitting (30 minutes or less)
• every word, character, or incident must contribute to the emotional effect
• all of them

What are the reasons for reading? 

• Pleasure
• Insight
• Our teacher makes us
• both pleasure and insight

Man vs. Man

Man vs. Himself

Man vs. Nature

Man vs. Fate/Destiny

Man vs. Society

Man vs. Technology

Man vs. Unknown/Supernatural

• tone

• plot

• types of conflict

• exposition

establishes the setting; introduces characters; sows seeds for future conflicts

• denoument
• rising action
• plot
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.W.8.3A

CCSS.W.8.3B

a series of crises followed by epiphanies that build in intensity

• rising action
• falling action
• climax
• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3A

the moment of highest emotional intensity from which the outcome can be seen

• plot
• conflict
• falling action
• climax

usually the shortest part of the story; follows the climax in which the pieces of the story begin to settle

• resolution
• falling action
• exposition
• plot

also called the denoument; suspense is ended with the final unraveling of the conflict

• resolution
• exposition
• plot
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

the sequence of events in a story; without conflict, it cannot exist

• plot
• theme
• tone
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.3A