Smarter Balanced ELA Review

An extended metaphor in a narrative; a narrative that has a literal meaning, but also has a representative meaning.

• Simile

• Personification

• Allegory

• Allusion

The repetition of the same consonant or vowel sounds at the start of words that are closely associated.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Couplet

A brief reference made to a familiar person, place, or event in history, religious scripture, mythology, or another work of literature. The reader should be familiar with the subject, and therefore detailed explanation is not needed.

• Metaphor

• Enjambment

• Synecdoche

• Allusion

An extended metaphor or simile where something is compared to something else at length in order to explain.

• Simile

• Analogy

• Apostrophe

• Denouement

A brief story, sometimes humorous, and usually autobiographical in nature.

• Anecdote

• Analogy

• Metonymy

• Ballad

Any opposing force facing the protagonist; there may be more than one, and it does not always have to be a character.

• Conflict

• Antagonist

• Anti-hero

• Antithesis

Any important information that takes place prior to the beginning of the story, but affects the characters and plot.

• Assonance

• Initial Incident

• Antecedent Action

• Motif

A protagonist who seemingly has little to no heroic qualities.

• Antagonist

• Idiom

• Static Character

• Anti-hero

A juxtaposition of opposite or contrasting ideas, usually balanced. Can also bring out the contrast of ideas through the use of contrasting phrases.

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

• Euphemism

• Caesura

Directly addressing an inanimate object, abstract idea, or deceased person as though the object, idea, or person were alive. Also can be directly addressing an absent person.

• Blank Verse

• Apostrophe

• Deus Ex Machina

• Elegy