Literary Terms and Devices

What is a conversation carried on by two or more characters?

• dialogue

• diction

• exposition

• monologue

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Match the following

• turning point in a story

• Rising action

• events after the climax

• Exposition

• events leading to the climax

• Falling action

• final outcome of the story

• Resolution

• introduction of characters and setting

• Climax

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content is

• plot

• genre

• allusion

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The narrator is always

• the main character

• the person/character/ voice that tells the story

• from first person point of view

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which of the following is an example of an idiom

• Break a leg

• Her laugh is like a summer day

• He was sunshine

• Scoot down the slippery slope

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Over exaggeration, such as, “I asked you to clean your room a million times" is an example of a

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a thesis?

• The first sentence of a paragraph

• In an introduction, this is the main point, idea or claim of the essay

• The "hook" of an essay

• a conclusion

Match the following

• Crash!

• The wind whispered through the trees

• It was as dry as the desert

• Idiom

• She was a shining star

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hit the road

• Simile

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is foreshadowing?

• a scene that interrupts the story to describe an earlier event that reveals something about a character’s past

• an unexplained reference to someone or something outside of the text

• a literary device that evokes certain emotions in readers through words and descriptions.

• When clues are provided as to what might happen in the future

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D