| A | B |
|---|
| ANECDOTE | SHORT SUMMARY OF A FUNNY EVENT |
| ARCHETYPE | A REPEATING PATTERN OR FORM IN LITERATURE |
| BALLAD | A SONG ABOUT SOMEONE FROM THE PAST |
| CLICHE | AN OVERUSED WORD OR PHRASE |
| DIALOGUE | CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 OR MORE CHARACTERS |
| SYMBOL | SOMETHING SEEN THAT STANDS FOR SOMETHING UNSEEN |
| FICTION | STORIES ABOUT IMAGINARY PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS |
| FREE VERSE | POETRY WITHOUT A REGULAR PATTERN OF RHYTHM OR RHYME |
| LYRIC POETRY | SHORT POETRY, USUALLY ABOUT AN EMOTION, AND ONLY HAS ONE SPEAKER |
| CYNICAL | PESSIMISTIC; SKEPTICAL |
| APATHETIC | INDIFFERENT; UNCONCERNED |
| DEFIANT | DISOBEDIENT |
| WITTY | FUNNY AND CLEVER |
| DIPLOMATIC | TACTFUL; SKILL IN DEALING WITH OTHERS |
| PENSIVE | THOUGHTFUL; WORRIED |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| OXYMORON | "sweet sorrow" "cold fire" |
| FICKLE | CHANGEABLE |
| oxymoron | phrase or expression that is seemingly contradictory |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| tragedy | a drama ending in catastrophe |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter |
| soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
| FICKLE | CHANGEABLE |
