a person, group, or force that acts and speaks in a narrative or play; a character may also represent ideas, values, assumptions, and cultural norms. ex: harry potter

• clause

• character

• characterization

• context

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an authors use of speech, action, narrative, and description to establish a character’s values, beliefs, and identity.

• character

• characterization

• conflict

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a set of characters in a classical tragedy who comment on the action of the play and help the audience understand the characters and plot, as well as provide background on the play’s wider moral and social context.

• chorus

• story

• connotation

• context

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

the cultural, historical, and social settings in which characters find themselves

• setting

• closed form

• circumstance

• complexity

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a group of words with a related subject and verb; the phrase may stand alone, or it can establish a subordinate relationship in a complex sentence

• climax

• closed form

• comparison

• clause

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the section of a plot of that produces the strongest emotional tension and serves as the main turning point in the story or play

• climax

• connotation

• context

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

a poetic structure that follows an established convention of lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas. ex: sonnet

• free verse

• open

• closed

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a literary and rhetorical device that uses similarities between people, places, things, and or ideas to help the reader recognize figurative meaning or an abstract concept. ex: metaphor

• comparison

• contrast

• complexity

• chorus

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the ambiguous, inconsistent, or contradictory aspects of a character, theme, or other literary element that suggest layered meanings and multiple interpretations

• climax

• conflict

• complexity

• context

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an extended metaphor that compares or contrasts images, concepts, and associations in surprising, elaborate, and paradoxical ways

• complex metaphor

• conceit

• comparison

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7