Common Core Key Vocabulary

An explicit or implicit reference, in a work of literature, to a person, place, or event, or to another literary work or passage.

A resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike.

An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

The person or group for whom a selection is written or performed.

Quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.

State or asset that something is the case.

A group of words having its own subject and predicate but forming only part of a complete sentence.

The action of fact of forming a united whole.

The emotional association (s) suggested by the primary meaning of a lexical unit, which affects its interpretation.

To be believed, convincing.

The objective meaning of a word independent of other associations the word calls to mind.

The objective meaning of a word independent of other associations the word calls to mind.

Language that deviates from a standard significance or sequence of words in order to achieve a special meaning or effect.

A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.

An intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect.

A conclusion or opinion that draws on known facts, evidence, or intuition to fill in missing information.

A literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions.

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object, idea is used in place of another to suggest likeness.

The term used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning.

The voice of a verb whose subject receives an action.

A figure of speech that endows things or abstractions with life or human characteristics.

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

The perspective or perspectives established by an author through which the reader is presented with the characters, setting, etc.

A narrative mode where a story is told by one character at a time, speaking for and about himself or herself.

The perspective implicit in first-person narration, intimate on the one hand and circumscribed on the other.

A narrative mode in which a story is told by a narrator who relates all action in third person, using third-person pronouns such as he, she

A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.

Events forming the outcome of the climax of a play or story; also called falling action.

A figure of speech or other direct comparison of two things that are dissimilar, using the works like or as (or other words of comparison).

Vocabulary relating to a particular subject, art, or craft, or its techniques.