| A | B |
|---|
| allusion | a reference to a famous person, place or event |
| antonym | an opposite |
| autobiography | story of a person's life written by that person |
| biography | a story of a person's life written by someone else |
| conflict | internal and external obstacles confronting a character |
| context clues | words surrounding a new word that allow you to infer its meaning |
| dialogue | the conversation in a story or poem |
| flashback | a scene in a story that jumps back in time |
| idiom | an American expression that is a common saying for us but which foreigners may not understand |
| irony | words or events taht are the opposite of waht you'd expect |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| opinion | a statement not based on information that has been proved to be true but instead on subjective feelings or misinformation |
| paradox | a contradictory statement that is also true |
| personfication | giving living characteristics to things |
| progressive time | telling a story in chronological order |
| digressive time | telling a story in reverse chronological order |
| purpose | why the writer is writing |
| sensory images | words that appeal to the senses |
| structure | how an essay or story is organized |
| style | a writer's distinctive use of words and sentence structures |
