High School Literary Terms

The practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects or animals.

• Theme

• Idiom

• Personification

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

When the author gives clues about a future event

• Idiom

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The sequence of events and happenings that make up a story

• Conflict

• Suspense

• Personification

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Time and location the story is taking place.

• Setting

• “The Necklace”

• Idiom

• CER

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Problem in the story

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Conflict

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Central Character

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• The Husband

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Protagonist vs Antagonist

• Man vs Society

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

• Man vs Nature

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

Man vs Man is an example of

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Setting

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Man Vs Self is an example

• internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Plot

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

The vantage point from which a story is told

• Point of View

• Crisis

• Cliche

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D