8th gr. Literary Terms Intro.

Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a character's personality to the reader.

• Setting

• Characterization

• Personalization

• Flashback

The struggle between a character and an outside force.

• the dark side

• internal conflict

• external conflcit

• life

The struggle occurring within the character's mind.

• Internal Conflict

• External Conlict

• Mind Conflict

• Decision Conflict

When an author interrupts the chronological sequence of a story by inserting past events.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• flashshadowing

• foreback

The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.

• Symbolism

• Foreshadowing

• Dramatic Irony

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a well-known person, place, event, story, or work of art, literature, music, pop culture.

• Mood

• Theme

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The people or animals in a story or drama

• schema
• conflict
• characters
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Setting

• where and when a story takes place

• where a story takes place

• the people or animals in a story or drama

• all of the events that happen in a story

________________________ = A series of events that happen after the climax.

• Conflict
• Exposition
• Resolution
• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is point of view?

• The way a story expresses the view about life and how people behave
• The way a story makes you feel or think
• The turning point in the story
• The perspective from which the story is being presented

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6