Literary Terms

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Writing that ridicules something, often in order to bring about change

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Satire

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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Language that appeals to the senses

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imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

an interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time

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flashback

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Front

the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience

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tone

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Front

one telling the story

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narrator

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

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onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

a kind, or type, as of works of literature, art, or popular fiction

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genre

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Front

a poem normally of 14 lines in any of several rhyme schemes

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sonnet

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Front

a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science

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allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Front

a contrast between expectation and reality

Back

irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A