8Th Grade Literary Terms

Name ______8th Grade Literary Terms

1. ______Alliteration 26. ______Figure of Speech 2. ______Allusion 27. ______Flashback 3. ______Anecdote 28. ______Folk Tale 4. ______Autobiography 29. ______Foreshadowing 5. ______Ballad 30. ______Free Verse 6. ______Biography 31. ______Historical Fiction 7. ______Character 32. ______Hyperbole 8. ______Chronological Order 33. ______Idiom 9. ______Cliffhanger 34. ______Inference 10. ______Climax 35. ______Irony 11. ______Comedy 36. ______Legend 12. ______Internal Conflict 37. ______Limerick 13. ______External Conflict 38. ______Main Idea 14. ______Connotation 39. ______Metaphor 15. ______Denotation 40. ______Meter 16. ______Descriptive 41. ______Mood/Atmosphere 17. ______Dialect 42. ______Myth 18. ______Dialogue 43. ______Motivation 19. ______Diction 44. ______Narrative 20. ______Drama 45. ______Nonfiction 21. ______Essay 46. ______Novel 22. ______Exposition 47. ______Objective Writing 23. ______Fable 48. ______Onomatopoeia 24. ______Fantasy 49. ______Oxymoron 25. ______Fiction 50. ______Paraphrase 51. ______Personification 77. ______Antagonist 52. ______Persuasive 78. ______3rd Person Omniscient 53. ______Playwright 54. ______Plot 55. ______Poetry 56. ______1st Person Point of View 57. ______3rd Person Point of View 58. ______Prose 59. ______Protagonist 60. ______Pun 61. ______Refrain 62. ______Rhythm 63. ______Satire 64. ______Sensory Details/Imagery 65. ______Setting 66. ______Simile 67. ______Stanza 68. ______Stereotype 69. ______Subjective Writing 70. ______Suspense 71. ______Symbol 72. ______Tall Tale 73. ______Theme 74. ______Tone 75. ______Tragedy 76. ______Understatement