Literary Terms

Who the story revolves around

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Where and when the story takes place

• Plot

• Rising Action

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A comparison between two unlike things USING like or as

• Simile

• Symbol

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The person or thing that works AGAINST the Protagonist

• Tone

• Diction

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

THE MEssage of the story

• Plot

• Theme

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When something happens that you did not expect would happen. Example: A pilot being afraid of heights

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The perspective from which a story is being told.

• Mood

• Onomatopoeia

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Diction is the author's choice of words

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The tension in a story (man vs. man/nature/self)

• Resolution

• Theme

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

• Antagonist

• Personification

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A