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University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms HandoutUniversity of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms Handout
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

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This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

literary terms, personification, point of view, setting

Additional Tags

literary definitions, narrative poem, persona, slant rhyme, theme, all - american: glossary of literary terms, glossary of literary terms, literary terms (n-z), narrative, narrator, parable, protagonist, rhyme, rhyme scheme, short story, simile, sonnet, symbol, unreliable narrator, literary terms (a-m)

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RL.7.4 RI.11-12.4 L.7.5.a L.6.5.a L.11-12.5.b RL.6.4 RI.7.4 RI.8.4 L.6.5.c RH.11-12.4 RL.11-12.4 RL.8.4 RI.6.4 L.11-12.5.a L.8.5.a

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