9th Grade Literature Terms to Know
Unit 1: Interpretation and Analysis
(various short stories)
Plot
Exposition
Setting
Characterization
Rising action
Falling action
Climax
Conflict
Internal vs. External Conflict
Conclusion
Resolution
Denouement
Flashback
Sensory words
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Narrator
Antagonist
Protagonist
Setting
Characterization
-Direct vs. Indirect Characterization
Methods of Characterization (MOC)
Point of view
-first person
-third person omniscient
-third person limited
Foreshadowing
Figurative language (allusion, hyperbole, imagery)
Irony
Inference vs. explicit
Dialogue
Diction
Dialect
Imagery
Symbolism
Suspense
Theme
Author’s Purpose
Contextualization
Author’s background
Unit 2: Long Fiction (Of Mice and Men)
(Previous lit terms from unit one are incorporated within this unit)
Internal Conflict External
Conflict
Foreshadowing
Diction
Dialogue
Dialect
Allegory
Symbolism
Media Literacy (all
the below words have to
do w/ media literacy be
sure to have definitions
match with that concept)
Media literacy
Medium
Message
Purpose
Target Audience
Unit 3: Persuasive/Nonfiction/Research:
Author’s purpose
Rhetorical Devices
Repetition
Parallelism
Analogies
Band Wagon
LEMP: Logos (logic); Ethos (credibility); Mythos (values - identity/religious affiliation); Pathos (emotions)
Plain folk
Testimonial
Target Audience
Loaded Language
Anecdotes
Claim
Emotional Appeal
Appeal to Values
Counter Claim
Bias
Hook
Thesis
4 “R’s” - recent, relevant, reliable,
MLA
Running header
Header
Unit 6: Drama
Prologue
Monologue
Soliloquy
Aside
Foil
Tragedy
Comedy
History
Tragic hero
Comedy
Act
Scene
Iambs
Iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Oxymoron
Prose
Poetry
Summarizing
Translating
Paraphrasing
Figurative Language
-oxymoron
-allusion
-personification
-pun
-metaphor
-simile
-analogy
Comic relief
Inverted syntax
Irony
-dramatic
-situational
-verbal
Elizabethan Stage