Literary Terms

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

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The turning point of a story where the protagonist often makes a change.

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

• inciting event

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together.

• allusion

• allegory

• alliteration

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.

• metaphor

• simile

• myth

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

How a story makes the reader feel.

• imagery

• mood

• tone

• humor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• nonverbal

• splat!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The teller of a story is a character in the story.

• 3rd person

• 3rd person limited

• first person pov

• omniscient pov

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The struggle between opposing forces in a story.

• conclusion

• conflict

• climax

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is theme?

• The author's main point in a paragraph.

• The lesson or moral of the story (narrative).

• The authors main point of the entire text.

• A one word subject such as love, bravery, or rebellion.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3