Literary Terms Part 2

Conflict which takes place within a character’s mind. Usually it is a struggle with the characters’ opposing needs, wants, desires or emotions

• Theme

• Conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The central idea of a literary work; the author’s intended message

• Theme

• Conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A struggle or clash between opposing forces, ideas, or characters

• Theme

• Conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When a character struggles against some outside force. The outside force may be another character or society or a storm or a grizzly bear etc.

• Theme

• Conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the author's attitude toward his or her subject, character or audience.

• Irony

• Motif

• Mood

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

• Irony

• Motif

• Mood

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

A contrast between expectation and reality (for example, a police station being robbed)

• Irony

• Motif

• Mood

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Repeated elements within a story (could be a color, action, image, or idea)

• Irony

• Motif

• Mood

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Lines of a conversation or speech between two or more people included in a literary work

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• dialogue

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• dialogue

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5