English II Literary Terms

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• anecdote

• allusion

• analogy

• epigram

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A literary work that ends happily because the hero or heroine overcomes obstacles

• gothic novel

• melodrama

• denouement

• comedy

A writer or speaker's choice of words

• epithet

• diction

• malapropism

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An appeal to emotion

• pathos

• romanticism

• local color

• melodrama

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

• parody

• anecdote

• oxymoron

• epithet

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

• denouement

• naturalism

• flashback

• climax

a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation

• epithet

• local color

• epigram

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

• analogy

• omniscient

• epithet

• malapropism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was.

• romanticism

• melodrama

• naturalism

• gothic novel

a word humorously misused

• epigram

• oxymoron

• melodrama

• malapropism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A