Literary Terms (7th Grade)

• This is the repetition of a sound or consonant in a line of text.

  • Ex) buckets of big blueberries

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

• a saying that is not taken literally and is a figure of speech

  • Ex) I would love to be a fly on the wall

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

• In a text, a word that stands in as a sound.

  • Ex) wham, bam, blast, whack

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

• Two words that are put together for an effect but are completely opposite

Ex) The cut on your forehead looks pretty awful.

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

• A detailed description of a character

  • direct and indirect

• Conflict

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

• a struggle between 2 opposing forces

• Conflict

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

•  a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features

Ex) The characters in The Outsiders call cokes a “pop” which is an example of regional dialect.

• Dialect

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

• A hint of what is to come later on in a text

Ex) In The Outsiders, the author hints to the audience that something bad was about to happen to Ponyboy at the end of chapter three.

• Dialect

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

• a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time

  • Ex) Ponyboy has a _____ while talking to Cherry when he describes how Johnny was jumped by Socs four months earlier.

• Flashback

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

language that appeals to the 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hear)

• Flashback

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3