Literature Terms

When what is said is not what is meant

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal irony

• Narrator

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Sense of reality

• Personification

• Denouement

• Flashback

• Verisimilitude

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Giving human characteristics to something non-human

• alliteration

• rising action

• personification

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When an event turns out differently than expected

• theme

• irony of situation

• indirect characterization

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Represents something other than itself

• flashback

• simile

• omniscient

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the reader knows something hidden to a character

• dramatic irony

• irony of situation

• external conflict

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The solving of conflict

• resolution

• climax

• internal conflict

• first person point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A comparison using "is," "are," etc.

• symbol

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A character that does not change

• verbal irony

• omniscient

• static character

• dynamic character

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Going back in time

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• resolution

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5