Literature Keystone Vocabulary #6

A dramatic speech, revealing their inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.

• soliloquy
• narrative
• monologue
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Elements of literature that emphasize sound (e.g., assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia).

• sound devices
• figurative language
• poems
• soliliquy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem. The speaker is often a created identity, and should not automatically be equated with the author. 

• speaker
• first-person
• third-person omnicient
• narrative

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play. 

• stage directions
• setting
• script
• orders

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning.

• structure of poem
• sonnet
• figurative language
• style

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The author’s choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader. 

• style
• purpose
• narrative
• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning or change it into a different kind of word, from an adjective to an adverb, etc.

• suffix
• prefix
• synonym
• antonym

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

To capture all of the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and as much as possible in the reader’s own words.

• summarize
• annotate
• explanation
• note

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

• symbolism
• metaphor
• allusion
• characteristic

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A word that is similar in meaning to another word (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness). 

• synonym
• antonym
• homonym
• homophone

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A