Literary Terms and defiitions

A word’s literal or dictionary meaning. Is…

• Diction

• Denotation

• Exposition

• Syntax

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A writer’s choice of words

• Exposition

• Imagery

• Inference

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Events that give a reader background information needed to understand a story

• Falling action

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The events in a story that follow the climax

• Falling action

• Rising action

• Resolution

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

An expression that’s meaning goes beyond the meaning s of the individual words

• Imagery

• Similie

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Language that portrays sensory experiences

• Inference

• Syntax

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence

• Plot

• Inference

• Point of view

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A comparison between 2 unlike things in which one becomes the other

• Simile

• Idiom

• Inference

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe (buzz, woof)

• Plot

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The sequence of related events that make up a narrative

• Syntax

• Setting

• Point of view

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D