Literary terms/devices Study Guide

methods used to reveal a character’s traits, eg, what the character says, does, what others say about him, and narrator descriptions

• Characterization

• Personification

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• allusion

• personification

• tone

• diction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Hyperbole

• the attitude of the author/sxpeaker towards his/her subject

•  having a double meaning; purposely unclear to provide different interpretations

• exaggeration

• the opposite of what you expect occurs

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

figurative language

• where, when the story takes place, and may change; general environment, time period of the story

•  perspective from which the story is told eg 1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient

• when an object, place, event, or person represents a specific idea

• a way of expressing oneself that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

comparison between two different things to show their similarities using "like" or "as"

• syntax

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

having a double meaning; purposely unclear to provide different interpretations

• ambiguity

• hyperbole

• allusion

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

structure and order of sentences or word order in a sentence; types of sentences

• hyperbole

• ambiguity

• syntax

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

irony

• where, when the story takes place, and may change; general environment, time period of the story

•  structure (punctuation) and order of sentences or word order in a sentence; types of sentences

• when an object, place, event, or person represents a specific idea

• the opposite of what you expect occurs

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

allusion

• any description that has to do with the 5 senses

• methods used to reveal a character’s traits, eg, what the character says, does, what others say about him, and narrator descriptions

• references to another literary or historical work, event, person, pop culture, etc.

• giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

any description that has to do with the 5 senses

• imagery

• personification

• irony

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5