Literary Vocabulary

Additional meaning associated with the word (emotions, ideas, and other words)

• Antagonist

• Connotation

• Inciting Incident

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

• Connotation

• Round Character

• Antagonist

• Dynamic Character

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A character that changes throughout the course of the narrative

• Flat Character

• Protagonist

• Round Character

• Dynamic Character

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Inciting Incident

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.

• Falling Action

• Denotation

• Climax

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Direct and specific meaning

• Resolution

• Connotation

• Tone

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The narrator's position in relation to the story being told

• Mood

• Point-of-view

• Foreshadowing

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Moments identified by the author that relate to previous events

• Foreshadowing

• Mood

• Point-of-view

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A struggle between two opposing forces

• Climax

• Conflict

• Flashback

• Inciting Incident

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• Protagonist

• Round Character

• Static Character

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D