Literary Terms Review

A reference to a well known person, place event, literary work, or work of art.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together.

• allusion

• allegory

• alliteration

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

How a story makes the reader feel.

• imagery

• mood

• tone

• humor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• nonverbal

• splat!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The struggle between opposing forces in a story.

• conclusion

• conflict

• climax

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The method a writer uses to develop a character.

• characterization

• comedy

• caricature

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which element of plot introduces the characters and the setting of the story?

• rising action

• inciting event

• resolution

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is imagery?

• The way the text makes the reader feel.

• The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Hints the writer gives about what may happen.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The contrast between what the character knows and the reader/audience knows...

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When objects or abstract ideas are given human characteristics.

• personification

• pun

• metaphor

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4