| A | B |
| biography | an account of a real person's life |
| connotation | the emotional assiciations surrounding a word |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| dialogue | converstation between two or more characters |
| flashback | an interruption in the action of a story to show an episode that happened at an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | the author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the narrative |
| inference | a reasonable and intelligent conclusion drawn by the reader from hints provided by the author |
| narrative | a story of account of an event or a series of events |
| point of view | the vantage point from which an author presents the actions and characters of a story |
| theme | the underlying meaning of a work |