Academic Super Bowl Lit Terms

A three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable. (understand, interrupt, contradict)

• anapest

• trochee

• iamb

• dactyl

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A figure of speech that juxtaposes two contrasting or opposing ideas ("That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.")

• foil

• oxymoron

• antithesis

• assonance

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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 figure of speech in which the same vowel sound repeats within a group of words (Who gave Newt and Scooter the blue tuna? It was too soon!)

• rhyme

• consonance

• alliteration

• assonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech in which coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) are omitted (

• asyndeton

• syndeton

• polysyndeton

• assonance

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Genre of novel that shows a young protagonist's journey from childhood to adulthood with a focus on the trials and misfortunes that affect the character's growth.

• foreshadowing

• memoir

• fiction

• bildungsroman

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order. (She has all my love; my heart belongs to her.)

• diction

• paradox

• assonance

• chiasmus

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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 writer's unique style of expression, especially their choice and arrangement of words.

• diction

• tone

• effect

• register

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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 character who undergoes substantial internal changes as a result of one or more plot developments.

• flat character

• dynamic character

• static character

• stock character

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break (in poetry). ("I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?")

• irony

• ambiguity

• enjambment

• end-stopped

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The literary practice of using a comparatively milder or less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form. (put out to pasture in place of retirement, enhanced interrogation in place of torture)

• euphemism

• paradox

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3