literary terms

Alliteration

• free verse

• repetition of the same syllable sounds in successive words or lines

• words that rhyme

• repetition of the same vowel sounds in successive words or lines

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A reference to a character /event / time period outside a work of literature

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When two unrelated objects, which share some common characteristics, are compared, but not using the words "like" or "as"

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Extreme exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Repetition of consonant sounds of words in the same line or successive lines for poetic effect

• Stanza

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The message the reader takes away from a work of literature

• Mood

• Theme

• Irony

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When certain things represent ideas or qualities

• Symbol
• Indicate
• Setting
• Purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Attitude or feeling given

• Tone
• Setting
• Purpose
• Infer

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

When the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.

• Theme
• Irony
• Characterization
• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A literary device that uses a part to represent the whole figure, or a whole to represent a part.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4