Literary Terms Review

time and place of a story

• setting

• motif

• conflict

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.

• metaphor

• simile

• myth

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis in poems and stories.

• humor

• cliche

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The struggle between opposing forces in a story.

• conclusion

• conflict

• climax

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The method a writer uses to develop a character.

• characterization

• comedy

• caricature

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is theme?

• The author's main point in a paragraph.

• The lesson or moral of the story (narrative).

• The authors main point of the entire text.

• A one word subject such as love, bravery, or rebellion.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The contrast between what the character knows and the reader/audience knows...

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The writer's use of clues that suggest what will happen later in a story.

• Flashback

• Mystery

• Foreshadowing

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is a symbol?

• a sign

• something representing something else

• an object

• characters in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5