Class Literature

A comparison of two things, often using the words "like" or "as".

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human characteristics to objects and phenomena.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stressed syllable.

• alliteration
• assonance
• oxymoron
• pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A phrase which contains words that seem to contradict one another.

• alliteration
• assonance
• oxymoron
• pun

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 they describe.

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal meaning.

• pun
• hyperbole
• irony
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The setting is ... in which the story takes place.

• the time
• the place
• the time and the place
• the climax event

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The ... is what happens in the story.

• script
• plot
• climax event
• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which kind of narrator is recounting the story? "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

• first-person
• second-person
• third-person
• limited

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A narrative passage that takes the reader backwards in time.

• flashforward

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5