| A | B |
|---|
| conflict | problem or struggle |
| theme | lesson about life and human nature |
| point of view | who is telling the story |
| resolution | solution of the conflict |
| setting | time and place |
| characters | those whose advance the action in a story |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | a direct comparison |
| antagonist | the villain of the story |
| protagonist | the hero in the story |
| personification | giving human traits to something not human |
| alliteration | the repetition of the beginning sound |
| allusion | a reference to something in literature or something famous |
| man vs man | problem between characters |
| man vs society | problem exists between a character and a belief or tradition or law |
| man vs nature | problem between a character and an element of nature |
| man vs himself | problem requires a decision by character |
| man vs fate | problem is insurmountable or is with a god/destiny |
| irony | the opposite of what you expect to be said or done |
