| A | B |
|---|
| foreshadowing | clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| complications/conflict | struggles between opposing forces, internal and external |
| juxtaposition | the act or instance of placing two or more things side by side |
| illusion | deceptive appearance of false idea of image |
| dramatic irony | contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows |
| verbal irony | words that are used to support the opposite of their usual meaning |
| characterization | the act of creating and developing a character |
| internal motivation | characters motivated by emotion, belief or trust |
| external motivation | character motivated by outward influences |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another |
| simile | figure of speech that makes a direct comparison using like or as |
| extended metaphor | like a metaphor but with several comparisons |
| allegory | a story with more than one level of meaning |
| point of view | persepective or vantage point from which story is told |
| connotation | set of associations a word calls to mind |
| denotation | exact meaning of a word - think dictionary |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a non human is given human characteristics |
| paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory but presents truth |
| tone | writer's attitude toward the reader and subject |
| theme | central idea, concern or purpose in a literary work |
