Literary Vocabulary The Black Cat

A very cruel or terrible act or action

• Macabre
• Atrocity
• Suspense
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

A situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected

• Imagery 
• Flashback
• Suspense
• Irony

A feeling or state of nervousness or excitement caused by wondering what will happen

• Macabre
• Suspense
• Atrocity
• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A ghost or ghost like image of a person

• Flashback
• Phantasm
• Allegory
• Apparition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Causes people to imagine pictures in their mind

• Imagery
• Personification
• Irony
• Symbolism

The use of symbols to express or represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, etc.

• Personification
• Symbolism
• Suspense
• Allegory

A part of a story or movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past

• Flashback
• Symbolism
• Suspense
• Allegory

A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical purpose

• Macabre
• Phantasm
• Allegory
• Suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.5

Involving death or violence in a way that is strange, frightening, or unpleasant

• Apparition
• Macabre
• Imagery
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Use of words that begin with the same sound near each other

• Suspense
• Irony
• Flashback
• Alliteration