| A | B |
| character | a person who figures in the action of a literary work |
| stereotype | uncritically accepted, fixed, or conventional |
| foreshadowing | the act of hinting at events to occur later in |
| central conflict | the primary struggle dealt with in the plot of |
| mood | the emotion created in the reader by part or |
| tone | the emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work. |
| setting | time and place in which a literary work occurs |
| simile | a comparison using like or as. |
| aphorism | a short saying or pointed statement – usually clever ways of passing on advice |
| dialect | a version of a language spoken by the people of a particular place, time, or social group |