Academic Vocabulary #4-Literature Terms

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work.

• flashback

• motive

• mood

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A character's reason for doing something.

• motive

• allusion

• suspense

• dialect

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The perspective or vantage point, from which a story is told.

• tone

• symbol

• point of view

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The writer's attitude toward the subject and characters

• tone

• mood

• point of view

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• symbol

• motive

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work

• allusion

• point of view

• motive

• suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Hints or clues about events that will occur later in the story

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• suspense

• dialect

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group

• mood

• dialect

• point of view

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A reference to a well known person, place, or event

• flashback

• allusion

• tone

• suspense

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A concrete or real object used to represent an idea

• symbol

• motive

• dialect

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D