| A | B |
|---|
| Plot | The main story |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place |
| Characters | The people in the story; major and minor |
| Characterization | What the characters are like |
| Theme | Idea, message or moral lesson of the story |
| Foreshadowing | Writing something in a story that is a hint of something that will come later |
| Rythm or meter | Built-in beat of a poem |
| Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| End rhyme | Ryming words at the end of lines in a poem |
| Internal rhyme | Rhyming words in the middle of a line in a poem |
| Limerick | Humorous type of poem with 5 lines; Lines 1,2, 5 rhyming |
| Form or structure | The way a poet arranges the poem on a page |
| Stanza | Group of lines in a poem |
| Free verse | Poetry having no regular pattern of rythm or rhyme |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more words |
| Personification | Type of figurative language where human characteristics are given to animals, objects or ideas |
| Simile | Comparison that uses the words "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | Comparison that does not use "like" or "as" |
| Rhyming couplet | Pair of lines in a poem, that rhyme at the end |
| Analogy | Example that is similar |
| Synonyms | Words that mean the same |
| antonyms | Opposites |
| Homophones | Words with the same sound; (buy, by)) |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration(My room is so messy it makes the trash dump look clean) |
| Onomotopoeia | Words that sound like the sound the mean(Growl, crunch, rustle) |
| Etymology | History of words |
| Idiom | Phrase that means something different from the usual meaning(let the cat out of the bag) |
| Homograph | Words with same spelling but different meaning(minute, minute-tiny) |
