Literary Terms (Part 1)

Where and when a story takes place.

• Plot

• Theme

• Setting

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A problem in the story (3 types: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self).

• Conflict

• Climax

• Personification

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What happens in the story.

In other words, the sequence of events in a story.

• Climax

• Plot

• Resolution

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The point at which the conflict is greatest; the most exciting part of the story.

• Conflict

• Hyperbole

• Resolution

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The outcome of the conflict before the story ends.

• Metaphor

• Climax

• Resolution

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When an author hints about what will happen later in a story.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Prediction

• Theory

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

An author’s general message about life.

• Theme

• Narrator

• Dialogue

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When an author inserts a scene from the past into a story to help explain present actions.

• Setting

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Who tells the story.

• Prose

• Narrator

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Language that is not meant to be taken by its dictionary definition.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4