Literary Terminology

Genre

• specific type of literature

• unhealthy microbes

• reader's attitude

• human characteristics to nonhuman things

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the name for the perspective from which a story is told?

• Point of View
• Character
• Theme
• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What do we call the central message or main idea of a story?

• Topic
• Theme
• Concept
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Characterization is defined as

• An important decision a character makes

• The arrangement of event in the story

• The order people show up in the story

• The words, thoughts, and actions of the characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

hyperbole

• generalization

• exaggeration

• direct quote

• how do you say that again?

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

metaphor

• comparison of unalike things using like or as

• comparison of two unalike things saying something is something else

• a literal comparison

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

simile

• comparison using like or as

• comparison not using like or as

• using like or as in a sentence

• comparison between between a noun and a verb

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

imagery

• the ability to make up a good story

• gives readers optical illusions as they read

• detailed description using the five senses

• only getting parts of the story

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

tone

• the feeling the reader gets

• author's attitude toward the subject

• the reader's attitude about the story

• mood, tone, whatever

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

allusion

• an descriptive image

• an imaginary image

• indirect reference to history, literature, culture

• something illusory/magical

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4