Literary Elements Vocab

1st Person POV

• one person narrates the story using pronouns such as "I" or "We"
• The second stage of a story; the conflict causes the story to progress.
• the events in a story
• A character that stays the same throughout the story.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

2nd Person POV

• The narrator is speaking to the audience using pronouns such as "you"
• where the conflict begins
• The first stage in a story; characters and setting are introduced
• one person narrates the story using pronouns such as "I" or "We"

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

3rd Person LIMITED POV

• The narrator is outside of the story, and only sees from one character's perspective
• The stage of the story where the events unravel.
• A belief or viewpoint of something.
• The person or character who tells the story.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

3rd Person OMNISCIENT POV

• the events in a story
• A thing that is known and proven to be true.
• The narrator is outside of the story, and only sees from one character's perspective
• The narrator is outside of the story, and sees from all characters' perspectives.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

Situational Irony

• When the reader expects on thing, but the opposite happens
• The writer's attitude towards their subject or character.
• The second stage of a story; the conflict causes the story to progress.
• A character that goes through an internal change throughout the story.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Verbal Irony

• When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
• The second stage of a story; the conflict causes the story to progress.
• A character SAYS one thing, but means the opposite
• Conflict that happens outside of the character. (Person vs. supernatural/technology/person/society/nature)

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Dramatic Irony

• When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
• one person narrates the story using pronouns such as "I" or "We"
• The feeling a piece of writing makes the reader feel.
• Dictionary definition of a word

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Conflict

• The stage of the story where the events unravel.
• The writer's attitude towards their subject or character.
• a struggle between opposing forces in a story
• The main character of a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Internal Conflict

• a struggle between opposing forces in a story
• When the reader expects on thing, but the opposite happens
• Conflict that happens within a character (Person vs. Self)
• The first stage in a story; characters and setting are introduced

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

External Conflict

• A character that stays the same throughout the story.
• When the reader expects on thing, but the opposite happens
• Conflict that happens outside of the character. (Person vs. supernatural/technology/person/society/nature)
• Is a word of phrase that does not have its literal meaning (simile, metaphor, allusion, hyperbole, personification, idiom, alliteration)

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D