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Literary Terms gr 6
Literary Terms for 6th grade
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate sound |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration to make a point |
| Flashback | a scene in a story that refers back to previous events to help make the current action clear |
| Foreshadowing | clues to hint at what might happen later in the story. |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Suspense | a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a leterary word |
| Irony | a surprising, interesting or amusing contrast; a contrast between what appears to be reality and what really is. |
| Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| Free verse | poetry not written in a regular pattern |
| Idiom | an expression that has a meaning particular to a language or region |
| Imagery | words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses |
| Persuasion | writing or speech that attempts to convince the reader or listener to adopt a particular opinion or course of action |
| Theme | central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
| Atmosphere | mood/feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Tone | the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
| Character | a person or animal that takes part in the action of a story |
| Antagonist | the character or force in conflict with the protagonist |
| Hero | character whose actions are inspiring or noble |
| Characterization | the act of creating and developing a character |
| Dialogue | Conversation between characters |
| Genre | a type of literature |
| Drama | a story written to be performed by actor |
| Comedy | a litrary work which is usually humorous and has a happy ending |
| Fantasy | imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life |
| Fable | a story or poem usually with animal characters that tells a moral or teaches a lesson |
| Science Fiction | combines fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. usually takes place in a future that is technologically advanced |
| Myth | a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature |
| Short story | a brief work of fiction that contains a plot |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a story or drama |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| External conflict | a character struggles against an outside force |
| Internal conflict | a character struggles with himself - struggle takes place in the mind usually concerning a decision, an action, or a felling |
| Expositions | part of a story or drama that introduces the characters, setting and basic situation |
| Resolution | the outcome of the conflict in the plot |
| Development | (rising action) situations involving the progress of the conflict in the story |
| Climax | the turning point of the action in the plot, point where the outcome of a story hangs in a balance between one outcome and another |
| Falling action | everything that happens after the climax |
| Denouement | the end of the story or the resolution |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told |
| Narrator | a speaker or character who tells the story from a particular point of view |
| First Person Narrator | the story is told by a narrator who is a character in the story. This character talks about himself and tells the story from his own point of view |
| Third person narrator | narrator that is not a character in the story and can be limited or omniscient |
| Third person omniscient | this narrator is not a character in the story but sees, hears, or knows everything that will happen in the story |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
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