Literary Terms

The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.

• Symbolism

• Foreshadowing

• Dramatic Irony

• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When the author shows/tells the audience what the personality of the character is.

• Characterization

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

A reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a well-known person, place, event, story, or work of art, literature, music, pop culture.

• Mood

• Theme

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The climate of feeling in a literary work; a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers revealed through diction, setting, and character actions.

• Mood

• Conflict

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

When the reader knows something the characters do not.

• Characterization

• Dramatic Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

• Theme

• Symbolism

• Connotation

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

A person, place, object, or action that stands for something beyond itself.

• Mood

• Symbolism

• Diction

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The giving of human qualities to an animal or object.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Euphemism

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The implied or emotional response of a word.

• Metaphor

• Diction

• Alliteration

• Connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When something happens that the reader wouldn’t have expected to happen.

• Situational Irony

• Allusion

• Theme

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5