EOG Literary Terms

An account of a person’s life written or told by another person

• Biography

• Setting

• Theme

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Where and when a story, play, or narrative poem takes place.

• Setting

• Suspense

• Imagery

• Fable

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Life lesson or moral of the story.

• Mood

• Theme

• Flashback

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had, human feelings, thoughts, on attitudes.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as”.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The overall feeling or emotion of a work of literature. How the reader feels after reading a text.

• Mood

• Conflict

• Prose

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A comparison between two things using “like” or “as”.

• Simile

• Flashback

• Plot

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

An interruption in a story to tell events that happened in the past.

• Flashback

• Dialect

• Climax

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The series of events that make up a story.

• Foreshadowing

• Rhythm

• Plot

• Fable

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A struggle between two opposing characters or forces.

• Stanza

• Conflict

• Climax

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3