9th Grade Literary Terms

the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

• climax

• characterization

• connotation

• denotation

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, or some other field of knowledge

• allusion

• anecdote

• autobiography

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

irony that occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• ironic irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot

• flashback

• internal rhyme

• internal conflict

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

• onomatopoeia

• narrative

• personification

• point of view

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 in a work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry

• antagonist

• protagonist

• resolution

• refrain

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 lines in a poem that forms a single unit

• style

• tone

• stanza

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something beyond itself

• symbol

• theme

• tone

• style

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the central idea or insight of a work of literature. What the author is saying about life.

• symbol

• theme

• tone

• style

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character

• symbol

• theme

• tone

• style

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3