Allusion

• a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

• an author's purposeful reference shapes theme

• a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Antagonist

• a character that changes throughout the course of the narrative

• characters that are two-dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated

• a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Climax

• the point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.

• direct and specific meaning

• literature in the form of prose

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Conflict

• the event that sets the central conflict in motion

• a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist

  and an antagonist.

• author’s attitude toward the subject/topic evoked through diction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Connotation

• additional meaning associated with the word (emotions, ideas, and other words)

• direct and specific meaning

• a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Denotation

• direct and specific meaning

• the events take make up a storyline

• the narrator's position in relation to the story being told

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Dynamic Character

• the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• characters that are two-dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated

• a character that changes throughout the course of the narrative

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Exposition

• a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers

• moments identified by the author that relate to previous events

• feeling(s) evoked in the reader as a reaction to the narrative’s atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5