English 4 Honors Literary Terms

The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work

• Antonym

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Inferred

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The development of conflict and complications in a literary work

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Motif

• Assonance

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

The turning point in a literary work

• Diction

• Conflict

• Allusion

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Results or effects of the climax of a literary work

• Falling Action

• Allegory

• Aside

• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

End of a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered

• Denotation

• Genre

• Resolution/Denouement

• Connotation

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, where the entire story or poem has a secondary symbolic meaning

• Mood

• Allusion

• Motif

• Allegory

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Stereotype

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A reference to something well-known that exists outside the literary work

• Allusion

• Satire

• Inferred

• Suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Character that is the source of conflict in a literary work

• Plot

• Antagonist

• Objective Summary

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A word opposite in meaning to another

• Figurative Language

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Antonym

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3