Literary Terms...WOOHOO!

The series of events consisting of characters, actions and conflict in a story.

• setting

• theme

• plot

• mood

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place.

• mood

• external conflict

• setting

• plot

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The struggle between a character and an outside force.

• the dark side

• internal conflict

• external conflcit

• life

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The struggle occurring within the character's mind.

• Internal Conflict

• External Conlict

• Mind Conflict

• Decision Conflict

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

_{A universal life lesson about life or human nature. The message of the story.}

• Plot

• Summary

• Central Idea

• Theme

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CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Creates a surprise ending that defies the audience's exception (We expect one thing, but we get another).

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• ironing board

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Where a character says the opposite of what they mean.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Flat iron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Where the audience knows more than the characters. We know more than the characters do with creates humor or suspense.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• "Iron't" I funny?

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Where a writer/narrator gives an advance hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. Any event, action, dialogue or thought that gives a clue to what is going to happen.

• irony

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• theme

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

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

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• flashshadowing

• foreback

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5