Literary Terms #5 (61-75)

Someone who tells a story.

• Narrator

• Satire

• Pun

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A short novel usually under 100 pages.

• Prequel

• Sequel

• Novella

• Prologue

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Language opposite from emotive language as it is literal or even objective in nature.

• Neutral language

• Ode

• Slang

• Prose

Imperfect rhyme scheme.

• Poetic justice

• Pun

• Trochee

• Oblique rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.

• Ode

• Onomatopoeia

• Soliloquy

• Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Onomatopoeia

• Play on words, when two words have multiple meanings and spellings and are used in a humorous manner.

• The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

• Solution to the conflict in literature.

• A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Paradox

• An account of the personal experiences of an author.

• A dominant theme or central idea

• Solution to the conflict in literature.

• Statement which seems to contradict itself.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Parody

• An introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play.

• A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.

• Used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another.

• The alter ego of a character-the suppressed side of one’s personality that is usually unaccepted by society

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Personification

• The repetition of sounds in words

• A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel.

• A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

• A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Poetic justice

• Word choice or the use of words in speech or writing

• The rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice in the resolution of a plot. The character, as they say, gets what he/she deserves.

• Reflects how the author feels about the subject matter or the feeling the author wants to instill in the reader.

• Two rhyming lines in poetry.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C