Short Story Unit: Lit Terms & Fig Lang

Match the following

• Hyperbole

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• Personification

• visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

• Flashback

• the hint about events to come

• Foreshadowing

• the insertion of a scene showing an earlier event

• Imagery

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Match the following

• Tone

• the atmosphere of a piece of writing that is built and supported by the author's description of the setting and characters

• Verbal Irony

• the attitude or viewpoint that an author shows toward their subject

• Situational Irony

• the audience knows information about the events or plot line that the character does not

• Dramatic Irony

• an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, reader or audience

• Mood

• words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Match the following

• Simile

• anything that stands for or represents something else

• Irony

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more vivid

• Metaphor

• a situation or event that is opposite of what is to be expected; a difference between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intentio

• Symbol

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Match the following

• Internal

• the main character struggles against an outside force

• Conflict

• struggle between opposing forces that forms the basis of a story

• External

• the character who opposes the protagonist or main character; often a villain

• Antagonist

• a character in conflict with himself

• Climax

• highest point of tension

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Match the following

• Exposition

• The sequence of events that takes place in a literary work that includes characters and conflicts.

• Narrator/ Speaker

• occurs after the climax as things begin to work themselves out in the story

• Falling Action

• the introduction of a short story

• Dialogue

• a speaker or character who tells a story; imaginary voice.

• Plot

• a conversation between characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Match the following

• Setting

• the final outcome of the story where conflicts are resolved

• Rising Action

• occurs as you begin to move throughout the story. This is where conflicts start to build just like when you climb a mountain you are moving further along.

• Resolution

• the time and place in which events occur in a literary work.

• Protagonist

• main character in a work of fiction; the one readers would like to see succeed

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Reorder the following

• Resolution

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Internal Conflict

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(b) External Conflict

• After losing his wife, a man must deal with the loneliness whilst on an adventure.

• Dinosaurs escape and the main character (s) have to find a way to survive.

• An individual must confront their fears and insecurities in order to move forward.

• An alien invasion threatens the existence of humanity.

• A group of explorers must battle the elements and wildlife in a remote jungle.

• A protagonist faces a moral dilemma that challenges their beliefs and values.

• Contestants in a game of survival must fight in a dome to be the winner.

• A person grapples with their own identity and tries to find their place in the world.

• A zombie outbreak has wiped out most of the world. The ones left must learn to survive.

• An individual is torn between their personal desires and their responsibilities to others.

• A world where toys are sentient, one denies that he is a toy at all.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.9