| A | B |
|---|
| Protagonist | main character or hero of story |
| Repetition | the repeating sounds, words or phrases to create an effect or atmosphere |
| Satire | literary tine used to make fun of human vice or weakness |
| Soliloquy | a speech delivered by a character when he or she is alone on stage |
| Simile | compares two things using "like" or "as" |
| Symbolism | The author or poet uses something to stand for something else |
| Theme | Statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing |
| Tone | overall feeling, or effect, created by writers' use of words |
| Tragic Hero | character who experiences an inner struggle because of a character flaw |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Couplet | two rhymed lines |
| Free Verse | no rhyme, no meter |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line |
| Quatrain | four lined stanza of a poem |
| Stanza | the "paragraph" of a poem |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| oxymoron | two words or phrases, side by side, that mean opposite things |
| paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself, but is actually true |
| personification | giving human or living qualities to non living objects |
| point of view | standpoint or perspective from which the author tells the story |
