| A | B |
|---|
| Atmosphere | mood;climate of feeling |
| Autobiography | written by yourself |
| Biography | book written by someone else |
| Characterization | method writer uses to reveal personality and character of a person in a story |
| Direct Characterization | giving outright information;direct statements about character |
| Indirect Characterization | through actions- character is revealing himself ; what other characters say or feel about him |
| Dialogue | conversation between 2 or more characters |
| Soliloquy | character on stage speaking aloud inner most thought |
| Fantasy Literature | any fiction that departs from experienced reality(fairy tales, myths, legends) |
| Figurative Language | any language that is expanded beyond its literal meaning-"Jump in a lake" |
| Figurative | abstract |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
| Metaphor | implied comparison-"something is like something" |
| Literal | concrete |
| Hyperbole | gross exageration- "mountain of laundry" |
| Oxymoron | contradiction "little giant" |
| Onomatopeia | the sound indicates the meaning of the word |
| Personification | assign nhuman qualities to things that aren't human (wind howled) |
| Symbol | object that stands for itself (literal) and something abstract (figurative) |
| Imagery | a sense experience in words (freshly mowed grass) |
