| A | B |
| rhythm | the pattern or beat of a poem |
| rising action | the part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated |
| satire | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness |
| semantics | the study of meaning in language |
| setting | the time and place in which a story unfolds |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things inwhich a word of comparison (like or as) is used |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme is fixed |
| source | text and/or artifacts that tell or show a first-hand account of an event |