| A | B |
|---|
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| situational irony | opposite of the characters, reader, or audience expect |
| dramatic irony | contrast between what the character thinks and the audience knows |
| verbal irony | word or phrase that means the opposite of the usual meaning |
| simile | compares two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | compares two unlike things without using like or as |
| metonymy/synecdoche | a part of something represents the whole |
| oxymoron | contradiction in terms |
| paradox | something that appears unbelievable but may be true |
| personification | giving human characteristics to nonhumans |
| understatement | a statement making something appear less than it is |
| apostrophe | speaks to an absent person or personified object |
| idiom | peculiar expression beyond the literal meaning |
| theme | lesson to be learned |
| semantics | interpretation of a group of words |
| genre | category |
| prose | everyday language |
| synonym | a word that means the same as another |
| antonym | a word that means the opposite of another |
| satire | criticizes or ridicules individuals, ideas, art, literature, etc. |
