Literary Terms FINAL review

When an actor speaks his/her thoughts out loud to the audience; used to help the audience understand what an actor is thinking.

• Soliloquy
• Simile
• Plot
• Climax

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

When the audience or reader knows something a character does not know.

• Dramatic Irony
• Connotation
• Oxymoron
• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Conflicts that an individual has with his or her conscience.

• Person vs. Person
• Person vs. Self
• Personification
• Person vs. Society

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

_______ is the method of narration/vantage point from which a story is told.  A story is told in First Person, Third Person Objective, Third Person Limited, or Omniscient narration.

• Point of View
• Conflict
• Dialogue
• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the words at the end of two or more lines rhyme.

• End rhyme
• Rhyme
• Internal Rhyme
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals.

• Simile
• Theme
• Rhyme
• Tone

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

The conflict a person encounters with the forces of their environment.

• Person Vs. Nature
• Person vs. Society
• Person vs. Self
• Person vs. Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The sequence of events in a story is the _______.

• Plot
• Idiom
• Tone
• Motif

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

When something starts to happen in a story.

• Falling Action
• Connotation
• Rising Action
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The attitude a writer/author has toward his or her subject matter.

• Plot
• Theme
• Tone
• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3