| A | B |
|---|
| foreshadowing | When an author gives a hint beforehand of what will happen in a story. |
| hyperbole | An exaggerated statement. |
| idiom | a phrase that cannot be taken literally. |
| imagery | to form mental pictures of things or events |
| inference | An educatd guess about what is not directly stated in a passage but is strongly hinted at or implied. |
| irony | a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. |
| irrelevancy | Not the point; off the subject; doesn't matter |
| main idea | what a passage or story is mostly about |
| major characters | the characters which appear in the story most often |
| minor characters | the characters which appear the least in the story |
