Literary terms and techniques

When an author gives a hint of what is happening in the story.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A comparison using "like" or "as".  He is angry as a lion.

• Fable
• Idiom
• Simile
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When the author provides a life lesson, message, or moral.

• Theme
• Plot
• Setting
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Events and details of what the story is about.

• Idiom
• Alliteration
• Plot
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Why the author is writing a particular story or passage.

• Theme
• Evidence
• Plot
• Purpose

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

What term describes where and when the story takes place.

• Theme
• Setting
• Purpose
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

This is where an author makes a statement or presents an idea.

• Claim
• Cause/Effect
• Idiom
• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When the main character tells a story.

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person
• 4th person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

This describes the mood of the passage.

• Metaphor
• Plot
• Tone
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

This type of story has animals as the main character of the story and has a lesson/moral.

• Fable
• Myth
• Biography
• Legend

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9