English Terms

Symbol

• Reader's feeling toward a story

• when something represents something else

• Time and place of a story

• Story read symbolically

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Mood

• Author's attitude toward subject

• Act of developing a character

• Reader's feeling from a story :l

• When something represents something else

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

foreshadowing

• Main idea or purpose to a purpose to a story

• clues about a possible future

• Story read symbolically

• surprising contraditon

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

irony

• surprising contradiction in a story

• main idea or purpose of story

• readers feeling toward a subject

• struggle between two or more forces

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Allegory

• Reason for a character's actions or thoughts

• Struggle between two or more forces

• Story read symbolically

• Exciting point in the story in which the conflict is about to be solved

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

tone

• Author's attitude subject

• perspective in which a story is told

• Time and place of story

• sequence of events in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

motivation

• one character tells story with use of "I

• struggle between two or more forces

• nonfiction account written from personal experience for a set period of time

• reason for a character's actions or thoughts

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

conflict

• Nonfiction account written from personal experience of a set period of time

• Exciting point in the story in which the conflict is a about to be solved

• Struggle between 2 or more forces

• Informational narrative in 3rd person point of view about someone else

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

characterization

• main idea or purpose to a story

• gives the outcome of the conflict and tells how the characters live from that point on

• act of developing a character

• story read symbolicallu

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

autobiography

• sequence of events in a story

• informational narrative written in 1st person point of view

• exciting point in the story in the story in which the conflict is about to be solved

• reader's feeling from a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10