| A | B |
|---|
| characterization | THE WAY AN AUTHOR REVEALS HER CHARACTERS |
| theme | central message of a work |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| mood | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| simile | making comparisons between two subjects using like or as |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken of as if it were something else |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| alliteration | repetition of first sound (Peter Piper picked) - repeated at least two times |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem - paragraphs, stanzas |
| flashback | a section in a literary work that interrupts the chronological order of events to relate an event from an earlier time. (goes back in time) |
| protagonist | the good main character |
| antagonist | the bad main character |
| metaphor | "The stream's a snake." |
| simile | "She dances like a princess." |
| hyperbole | "My date last night was the most beautiful girl in the world." |
| oxymoron | "Jumbo shrimp" |
| ALLITERATION | "The twisting trout twinkled below." |
| ASSONANCE | "cry" "side" "mine" "type" |
| CONSONANCE | "...a murmuring of immemorial elms..." |
| HYPERBOLE | "...the shot heard 'round the world..." |
| METAPHOR | "Time is money." |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | "buzz" "bang" "hiss" "splash" |
| OXYMORON | "sweet sorrow" "cold fire" |
| PARADOX | "Much madness is divinest sense." |
| PERSONIFICATION | "The train wailed in the night." |
| PUN | When the actress saw her first gray hair, she thought she'd dye! |
| SIMILE | "The warrior fought like a lion." |
| SOLEMN | DEEPLY SERIOUS |
| INDIGNANT | FEELING OR SHOWING ANGER |
| VEHEMENT | CHARACTERIZED BY FORCEFUL EMOTIONS |
| CONDESCENDING | displaying a superior attitude |
| STATIC CHARACTER | A CHARACTER WHO STAYS THE SAME |
| DYNAMIC CHARACTER | A CHARACTER WHO CHANGES |
| SENTIMENTAL | EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL |
| Assonance | harmony of vowel sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words or sounds to imitate sound effects |
| Pun | play on words |
| Personification | give inanimate object human characteristics |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Irony | use of a word to convey opposite meaning |
| oxymoron | ACT NATURALLY |
| ALLITERATION | "The twisting trout twinkled below." |
