Literary Terms

time and place in a story

• Setting

• Onomatopoeia

• Dialect

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

the main character in a story; usually, but not always, the hero or good guy

• flashback

• dialogue

• protaganist

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

opponent of the protaganist

• hyperbole

• antagonist

• protagonist

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

giving human qualities to something not human

• understatement

• verbal irony

• tone

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

two or more words sharing the same beginning CONSONANT sound (no vowels!)

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• foreshadow

• sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

comparison using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

comparison not using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

a sound written as a word

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• tone

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a character in the story is narrating the story, uses pronouns such as I, me, my, etc

• tone

• 1st person point of view

• dialogue

• 3rd person point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

story told by a narrator not a character in the story

• 3rd person point of view

• tone

• exaggeration

• 1st person point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6