Literary Terms Honors ELA 9th grade

a main division of a drama

• scene

• act

• sonnet

• play

• sonnet

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in tow or more consecutive words

• analogy

• assonance

• alliteration

• diction

a comparison between two things to show how they are alike in some respects

• metaphor

• aside

• analogy

• couplet

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The character or force that blocks/opposes the protagonist (the villain)

• tragedy

• paradox

• protagonist

• antagonist

placing words or phrases which are opposites close to each other

• antithesis

• similie

• metaphor

• paradox

a figure of speech in which someone usually absent, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is addressed as though present

• couplet

• apostrophe

• diction

• aside

a brief remark made by a character and intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters

• diction

• couplet

• aside

• analogy

the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in words that are close together

• couplet

• diction

• alliteration

• assonance

poetry written in un rhymed iambic pentameter

• epithet

• lyric poetry

• blank verse

• chorus

the final event in a drama (denounment)

• irony

• act

• catastrophe

• climax