Essentials Literary Terms

When the audience knows something the characters do not know.

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• allusion

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

• simile

• anecdote

• symbol

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When the speaker says the opposite to what he/she really means

• filibustering

• verbal irony

• advertising

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A character who does not undergo a personality change in a story

• static character

• the hero

• protagonist

• dynamic character

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The author's attitude towards his/her subject

• vision

• setting

• mood

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The universal idea contained within the text

• answer

• resolution

• subject

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The challenges that the main character has to deal with

• confidence

• conflict

• scenes

• war

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

• comparison

• personification

• exposition

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When an author includes hints or clues about something that will happen in the future.

• backshadowing

• foreshadowing

• sideshadowing

• frontshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A character with only one outstanding trait or feature

• round character

• main character

• hero

• flat character

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3