Literary Terms #2 Honors

The beginning of a story where the characters, the setting, and the problem (conflict) are introduced

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Climax

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The highest point in the conflict. Where the problem (conflict) gets really BIG and the main character (protagonist) must make some sort of decision. This is the most exciting part of a story.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The character(s) who oppose, or go against, the main character, usually causing the protagonist some sort of trouble

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Internal Conflict

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The main character(s) in a story usually the person the story is about

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Plot

• Ms. Smith

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of FLASHBACKS in a narrative may help readers to better understand a character.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse

• connotation 
• denotation 
• hyperbole
• rhetoric

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Home: a safe, private, warm place

• connotation
• denotation
• parody
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Home: where one resides or lives

• connotation
• denotation
• syntax
• rhetoric

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An elephant represents the Republican party

• syntax
• symbol
• stanza
• speaker

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

anyway that a character is described or developed, either directly or indirectly

• persuasion

• characterization

• symbol

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3