Literary Terms/Figurative Language Review

Figurative language: "Hundreds of eyes were looking at them, shining with desire. Two lambs with hundreds of wolves."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• IronyFFigur

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The writer's attitude toward the character, subject, and audience of a story.

• Theme

• Symbolism

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The climate or feeling of a literary work--environment

• Theme

• Symbolism

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

When a writer gives an animal or inanimate object human traits.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A character who serves as a direct contrast to another character, used to emphasize the qualities of the main character.

• Foil

• Antihero

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

When the protagonist is actually a villain of the story, but we empathize anyway.

• Foil

• Antihero

• Antagonist

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The opponent who blocks the main character; who goes against the main character in the story.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Foil

• Antihero

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The main character in the story; the person for whom the reader roots.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Foil

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

An insight about human life that's revealed in a literary work; the author's message to the reader.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Exposition

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Fig. language: “The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.

• Foreshadow

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5