Keystone Lit Terms 4

A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

• Fact

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author. 

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Fiction

• Fact

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The part of a literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot’s conflicts and complications. 

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Figurative Language

• First Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

An organizational device used in literature to present action that occurred before current (present) time of the story. Are often introduced as the dreams or recollections of one or more characters.  

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Explicit

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The center of interest or attention.

• Flashback

• Fiction

• Focus

• First person

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments. 

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Fiction

• Focus

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person. 

• Flashback

• Exposition

• Falling Act

• Generalization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The “first person” or “personal” point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The narrating character may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.

• First Person

• Flashback

• Generalization

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. 

• First Person

• Figurative Language

• Fiction

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true. 

• Fact

• Fiction

• Falling Action

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3