| A | B |
| plot | the series of related events that make up a story |
| setting | the time and place of a story, a poem, or a play |
| character | a person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work |
| conflict | a struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more characters |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses- sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told (i.e. omniscient, third-person, first-person) |
| prose | any writing that is not poetry |
| speaker | the voice talking to us in a poem |
| climax | the most exciting moment in a story |
| alliteration | the repetition off the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |