| A | B |
| symbol | object that represents something other than itself |
| archetype | repeated over and over in literature |
| satire | an author makes fun of others, a movie |
| personification | giving human characteristics to things that are not living |
| theme | main idea |
| verbal irony | say one thing yet mean something else |
| alliteration | repeated beginning sounds |
| internal rhyme | repeated inside a line of poetry |
| point of view | explains who tells a story |
| allegory | when a writer identifies characters with worldly terms (vanity, greed) |
| foreshadowing | given a hint to what comes later |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate natural sounds (crash, slam) |
| end rhyme | rhyme scheme at end of line |