| A | B |
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| plot | what happens in the story |
| characterization | the way an author presents characters |
| sensory language | writing that appeals to the senses |
| conflict | a struggle or problem in a text |
| theme | general idea in a text; life lesson |
| diction | word choice |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | comparison without using words "like" or "as" |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| contrast | when author points out differences |
| compare | when an author points out similarities |
| stanza | like a paragraph in a poem |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| forshadowing | hints to the reader about what's to come |
| symbol | anything that represents something else |
| genre | category or type of literature |
| mood | feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
| inference | educated guess backed up by text details |
| anecdote | brief story told to make a point |
| autobiography | a person tells his/her own life story |
| biography | a writer tells the life story of a person |
| dialect | language spoken by people in specific region |
| protagonist | main character in a text |
| narrator | the speaker or character who tells the story |
| setting | time and place of the story |
| mental images | mental pictures readers create as they read |
| author | person who writes the story |
| author's purpose | to entertain, persuade, inform, describe |
