Literary Terms and Devices

What is the definition of Plot?

• A piece of land requires labor and toil.

• The sequence of events in a literary work, usually occurring in five stages.

• A sequence of events that fall into 12 stages.

• The end of a literary work.

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is the exposition?

• Introduces setting and relevance.

• The high point of a story.

• Introduces characters, setting & conflicts.

• The result of a climax.

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is Character Foil?

• A character that attempts to foil all plots against the antagonist.

• A character who provides a contrast (opposite) to the protagonist so that we learn more about the protagonist’s character.

• A character that attempts to foil all plots against the protagonist.

• A character that usually ends up in only one scene.

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A _________________ is a word or expression that is commonplace within a specific language, geographic region, or historical era.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is an internal conflict in literature?

• A conflict that takes place within the mind (internally).

• A conflict that takes place within the climax.

• A conflict that takes place within the resolution.

• A conflict that occurs based on outside factors.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Compares two things you would not normally associate together by using the words "like" or "as.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving animals or objects human like qualities.

• Animalfication

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Usually means a form of extreme exaggeration.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Irony

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound.

• Illumination

• Alliteration

• Alteration

• Transfiguration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech that refers to well-known places, historical events, and literary works

• Dissolution

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Alteration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4