8.5 Literary Terms

The time and place of a story

• Mood

• Setting

• Plot

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• Conflict

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Sequence of events in a story

• Setting

• Plot

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The conflict in the story between a character and an OUTSIDE force such as nature, technology, or another character.

• Internal Conflict

• Metaphor

• Simile

• External Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The conflict of a story where a character struggles with something INSIDE themselves.

• External Conflict

• Tone

• Internal Conflict

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Perspective from which the story is told.

• Foreshadowing

• Point of View

• Plot

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Narrator only gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of ONE character in a story, uses pronouns such as "she" "they", narrator not a character in the story

• First Person Point of View

• Second Person Point of View

• Third Person Omniscient ("all knowing") Point of View

• Third Person Limited Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

How the writer assigns traits and features to a character

• Mood

• Tone

• Characterization

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The teller of a story is a character in the story.

• 3rd person

• 3rd person limited

• first person pov

• omniscient pov

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5