Trimester 1 Literary Terms Matching

Match the following

• The person telling the story

• 1st person point of view

• narrator is a character in the story.

• Omniscient 3rd Person point of view

• Narrator outside for many characters

• Limited 3rd person point of view

• vantage point from which a piece is told

• narrator

• Narrator outside story for 1 character.

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Match the following

• The repeating of a word or phrase

• setting

• Language that emphasizes the senses

• imagery

• Variation of language by a certain group

• repetition

• the central message of the story

• theme

• Time and place of the story

• dialect

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

match the following

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• allusion

• Reference to a real person, place music

• metaphor

• A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'

• idiom

• A meaning is different than actual mean

• personification

• A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following

• story can be read in a single session.

• short story

• literary or artistic category

• genre

• story is invented by the writer

• science fiction

• impact of science on different societies

• fiction

• made up stories set in the real world.

• realistic fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Match the following

• overall feeling or atmosphere of a story

• characterization

• the expression of something contrary to what is expected

• alliteration

• describing a character using traits

• stereotype

• Flat character with a repeated type

• irony

• the repetition of consonant sounds

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Match the following

• a character with one character trait.

• protagonist

• a character with varied or contradictory

• round character

• main character, hero

• flat character

• The authors choice of words

• Diction

• opposing force, villain

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Match the following

• conclusion of the story

• resolution

• events leading to the climax

• exposition

• introduction of the characters and setting

• falling action

• events after the climax leading to closure

• climax

• turning point of the action

• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Match the following

• a struggle within the mind (self)

• plot

• the main struggle of the story

• conflict

• a struggle between outside forces

• external conflict

• the structure of a piece of fiction.

• internal conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Match the following

• a person or creature in a literary work.

• foreshadowing

• clues to events that will happen.

• flashback

• where the story takes place

• voice

• talk

• implied setting

• a memory

• character

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is the definition of plot?

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3