Literary Terms Review

What is giving nonhuman things human characteristics?

• personification
• characterization
• dialogue
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is a comparison that uses "like" or "as"?

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is a comparison that does not use "like" or "as"?

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is an episode in the story that tells about something that happened earlier?

• foreshadowing
• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What are clues that a writer adds to hint at things that will happen later?

• flashback
• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the main idea of a literary work?

• plot
• setting
• theme
• style

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the high point of action in a story?

• climax
• satire
• imagery
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the series of events in a story

• theme
• climax
• setting
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

These are words that sound like the noises they represent.

• onomatopoeia
• theme
• understatement
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is repeating the first sound in a series of words?

• onomatopoeia
• conflict
• allusion
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3