| A | B |
|---|
| Alliteration | She sells seashells down by the seashore. |
| Allusion | The principal threatened, "Don't make me get my flying monkeys." |
| Atmosphere(Mood) | It was a dark and stormy night. |
| Character Traits | Kind, intelligent, giving, athletic, serious, etc. |
| Flat Character | Cinderella's evil step-mother |
| Round Character | Harry Potter who develops as a person and shows several sides to his personality. |
| Chronological Order | First, I went to the store. Then I got a shopping cart. I walked around the store and selected my items before checking out. I drove home. |
| External Conflict | Dorothy versus the Wicked Witch |
| Internal Conflict | Should I do my homework first or go see a movie instead? |
| Genre | Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry or Drama |
| Foreshadowing | The music on Jaws. |
| Flashback | Professor Dumbledore extracts memories to share with Harry Potter. |
| Hyperbole | I have told you a trillion times to clean up your room. |
| Idiom | It's raining cats and dogs. |
| Dramatic Irony | The scared camper thought he was hiding safely in the cabin, but the audience knows that the bear is right behind him. |
| Inference | I can tell from your black eye that you have recently been in a fight. |
| Irony of a Situation | The man who attempted to assassinate President Regan was unable to hit him with any bullets. However, one bullet ricocheted off the bullet proof glass and hit the President in the arm. |
| Verbal Irony | Oh Joy! I am so glad that it is 20 degrees below and snowing outside. That's going to make track practice fun. |
| Metaphor | Billy Bob Joe is a mountain of a man. |
| Onomatopoeia | Bang! Crash! Slam! Boom! |
| Personification | The sun danced in the bright summer sky. |
| 1st Person POV | I am going to the mall today. |
| 3rd Person Objective POV | He gripped the dollar bill tightly. "You can't have it," he told her. |
| 3rd Person Limited POV | Sally daydreamed about her birthday party that was planned for Saturday. |
| 3rd Person Omniscient POV | As the teacher droned on about the rules the entire class tuned out. Sally and Amy were thinking about their dance recital. Tim and John were thinking about the upcoming game. |
| Setting | Once upon a time in a land far, far away. |
| Simile | Her hair was as smooth as silk. |
| Theme | Change, love, friendship, and greed |
| Climax | When the Beast has a fight with Gaston, gets hurt, and Belle admits her love to him. |
| Indirect Characterization | Sally came charging into the room and began yelling and throwing things in an awful rage. |
| Plot | 11 year old Harry Potter discovers that he is a wizard, and leaves his aunt and uncle to join the magical boarding school Hogwarts... |
| Resolution | And they all lived happily ever after. |
| Direct Characterization | Sally is a silly and humorous little girl. |
| Antagonist | Lord Voldemort |
| Protagonist | Percy Jackson |
| Dialogue | Two or more characters speaking |
| Symbol | American Flag |
| Pun | Writing with a broken pencil is pointless. |
| Motive | I am hungry so I ate a cookie. |
| Analogy | Fat is to thin as tall is to short. |
