| A | B |
| fiction | any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement |
| imagery | a word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell |
| implicit | meanings which, though unexpressed in the literal text, may be understood by the reader; implied |
| inference | a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement |
| informational text | it is nonfiction, written primarily to convey factual information |
| irony | the use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposit of its literal or usual meaning |
| legends | a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events, or a story coming down form the past |
| limerick | a light or humoorous verse form of five lines, of which lines q, 2, and 5 rhymes and lines 3 and 4 rhyme |
| literary conflict | the struggle that grows out of the interplay of the two opposing forces in a plot |