IB Literature

the time and place when and where a story takes place

• dramatic irony

• setting

• thesis

• exposition

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

the use of symbols that stand for or represent something else. Characters, objects, events, and settigns can all be symbolic.

• allegory

• dynamic character

• personification

• symbolism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

central idea of a story, usually implied rather than directly stated (should not be confused with either moral or plot)

• assonance

• thesis

• theme

• atmosphere

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

atmosphere or mood of a story is the pervading feeling created by the story. Atmosphere usually sets up expectations in the reader about the outcome of an episode or plot. Dialogue and, more often narration create it, by descriptive diction or imagery.

• allegory

• atmosphere

• static character

• tone

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

descriptions and figures of speech that help the mind to formforceful or beautiful pictures.

• situational irony

• theme

• motif

• imagery

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.2

point of view from which a story is told. Short stories maybe told from the first person (the narrator refers to him or herself as "I"), the second person (the reader is included as a character in the story) or the third person (the narrator refers to characters as he or she and is omniscient orsemi-omniscient).

• euphemism

• hyperbole

• static character

• perspective

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.10

implied comparison between two different things, which doesnot use the words like or as in the comparison; a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is used to describe another thing in order to suggest a likeness between the two.

• metaphor

• simile

• motif

• theme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

literary device which reveals concealed or contradictorymeaning(s). Three common forms of irony are: verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony

• flat character

• verbal irony

• irony

• end rhyme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

when a contrast is evident between what acharacter says and what the character actually means.

• irony

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

when the author shares with the reader information not known by a character. As a result, the reader becomes aware that a character's actions may be inappropriate for the actualcircumstances, that what is to come is the reverse of what a character expects, or that a character has unknowingly made a comment which anticipates the outcome.

• irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3