| A | B |
| Analogy | metaphor |
| Autobiography | story about a person's life written by the person |
| Aphorism | wise saying |
| Bibliography | outline of sources |
| Biography | story of someone's life not written by the person |
| Fiction | not true |
| Nonfiction | true |
| Memoir | writing about a person's life |
| Inference | an educated guess |
| Innuendo | word with more than one meaning(succession) |
| Novel | story with many subplots |
| paraphrase | translate |
| pathos | creating a sence of compassion or pity |
| prologue | introduction |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme |
| tragedy | play that ends with the death of the hero |
| tragic flaw | trait of hte hero that brings about his downfall |
| versimilitude | truthlike, seeming real |
| vignette | details so well crafted you can see them |
| chiaroscuro | light and dark symbolically in a story |