| A | B |
|---|
| flashback | stopping the action in a story and going back to an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | giving clues about things that will happen later in a story |
| hyperbole | figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration |
| imagery | words and phrases used to access the five senses in readers (a "sensory" experience) |
| onomatopoeia | Words whose sound imitates their meaning (hiss, etc) |
| theme | a topic, major idea, the big message behind a passage |
| cause & effect | describing events and their causes or consequences |
| chronological order | placing events in the order in which they happen |
| compare & contrast | describing the similarities and differences of two or more things |
| problem-solution | organizational structure showing a need or problem and one or more outcomes or solutions |
| genre | class or category of literature |
| viewpoint | opinion, the point from which a story is told |
| propaganda | spreading of ideas for the purpose of helping or hurting someone or an organization |
| appeal to authority | to call on an expert |
| appeal to emotion | building an argument using expressive language instead of presenting evidence |
| appeal to reason | calling on a reader's ability to think to convince him/her |
| bandwagon | following the crowd |
| testimonial | propaganda technique based on someone famous or important saying good things about something or someone |
