Literary Terms

What is the time and place of the action in a story or play called?

• Plot
• Setting
• Symbol
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A logical guess or conclusion based on evidence that allows a reader to figure out more than the words say is called a/an...

• Author's purpose
• Analysis
• Exaggeration 
• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

The message, moral or lesson of a text

• Theme
• Main idea
• Exposition
• Author's  purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the term for a person, place, or object that represents something else?

• Symbol
• Main idea
• Description
• Context Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Statement that cannot be proven, may reflect personal beliefs, and may often be debatable.

• Comparison

• Context clues

• Opinion

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Process of breaking something down, like a poem or short story, and drawing conclusions about it; in writing, it is explaining the connection between your claim and your evidence

• Exposition
• Analysis
• Exaggeration
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A relationship among events where one event brings about the next event (Hint: The 2nd event happens because of the 1st)

• Exposition
• Persuasion
• Context clues
• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

When events in a text are in order by time (when they happened)

• Chronological order
• Cause and effect
• Conflict
• Comparison

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The point an author is making about a topic

• Central idea

• Comparison
• Text evidence

• Supporting detail

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The struggle between 2 or more opposing forces

• Symbol
• Theme
• Setting
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D