Literary Terms Review

The main events that occur in the story

• climax

• resolution

• plot

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

Put the following parts are the plot diagram in the correct order

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Climax

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

The struggle between opposing forces in a story.

• conclusion

• conflict

• climax

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis.

• humor

• cliche

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

How a story makes the reader feel.

• imagery

• mood

• tone

• humor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The method a writer uses to develop a character.

• characterization

• comedy

• caricature

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is imagery?

• The way the text makes the reader feel.

• The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Hints the writer gives about what may happen.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When objects or abstract ideas are given human characteristics.

• personification

• pun

• metaphor

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A feeling of uncertainty or excitement caused by wondering what will happen next in a story.

• Anxiety

• Flashback

• Suspense

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5