| A | B |
|---|
| Biography | an account of someone's life written by someone else tells about real people and actual events |
| Memoir | based on the memory of events and real people |
| Autobiography | an account of a person's life written by that person |
| Holocaust | sacrifice by fire |
| Myth | traditional stories a society tells itself that encode or represent the world view |
| Classical Mythology | the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Legend | traditional stories rooted in historical fact, describing the greatly exaggerated |
| Folk Tale | completely false: stories that are mainly entertaining |
| Hubris | excessive pride |
| Allusion | Something generally familiar eg; mythology |
| Aside | Lines whispered to audience or another character |
| Foil | Two characters used to compare and contrast |
| Soliloquy | A single character on stage thinking aloud |
| Paradox | Oxymoron |
| Pun | Play on word with multiple meaning |
| Meter | Pattern of Poem |
| Foot | building block of meter |
| Sonnet | 14 line poem |
| Iambic Pentameter | most sonnets are written in this, unstressed-stressed 5 foot lines |
