Literary Terms to Know

Match the following types of irony

• situational

• reader is led to believe one thing will happen, but the opposite does

• verbal

• when the reader knows something the character doesn't

• dramatic

• actual meaning of words is different from what they appear to express; can be sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

Match the following characters

• nemesis

• a character that goes through change or growth

• protagonist

• bitter enemy of the main character

• static/flat

• a character that remains the same throughout the story

• dynamic/round

• opposition of the main character

• antagonist

• main character

comparison of 2 things for explanation or clarification purposes; relationship

• connotation

• dystopia

• analogy

• allusion

a word with an additional/secondary meaning; emotion/feeling associated

• connoation

• dystopia

• analogy

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

where the author refers to a different subject outside the story

• connotation

• dystopia

• allusion

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

setting where everything is unpleasant or bad

• connotation

• dystopia

• allusion

• analogy

reader's emotional perspective of the work

• tone

• mood

• pun

• archetype

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

perspective or attitude the author has toward the topic

• tone

• mood

• pun

• archetype

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

universally understood prototype (stereotype)

• tone

• mood

• pun

• archetype

play on words, different senses of the same word or similar sense or sound of different words

• tone

• mood

• pun

• archetype

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A