Lit Terms #4

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• Character

• Flashback

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Descriptive language used to create word pictures for the reader (details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement)

• Ambiguity

• Imagery

• Figurative language

• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Inference

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Open to more than one interpretation

• Ambiguity

• Figurative Language

• Anecdote

• Archetype

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Persuasion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Writing or speech that attempts to convince the reader to adopt a particular opinion/course of action

• Novel

• Short Story

• Essay

• Persuasion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

A brief work of fiction

• Short Story

• Essay

• Novel

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

A long work of fiction

• Short Story

• Essay

• Novel

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A short nonfiction work about a particular subject

• Short Story

• Essay

• Novel

• Satire

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally

• Figurative Language

• Inference

• Archetype

• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4