Literary Terms

Qualities that tell the reader about a character

• Traits

• Allusion

• Antagonist

• Inference

The thesis or major argument of a nonfiction text.

• Central Idea

• Climax

• Plot

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.6

Information that can be found from words, phrases, or illustrations that surround the word

• Context Clues

• Irony

• Central Idea

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

The way the author chooses to present information

• Text Stucture

• Point of view

• Flashback

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.6

The events of a drama after the climax but before the resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

A group of lines that form a unit in a poem; a verse

• Stanza

• Chapter

• Allusion

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

A scene in a movie, novel set in a time earlier than the main story; transition to an earlier event

• flashback

• resolution

• foreshadowing

• suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

CCSS.W.6.3C

A lesson that can be learned from a story

• moral

• theme

• point of view

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

The way the conflict is solved in a story; a final solution or outcome;ending

• resolution

• climax

• falling action

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

The way the narrator tells the story

• point of view

• text structure

• inference

• context clues

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6