| A | B |
| Metaphor | Comparison w/o like or as |
| Conceit | Outlandish Exaggeration |
| Tone | Authors attitude about work |
| Satire | To make fun of |
| Allusion | Refer to another work |
| Analogy | comparision showing similarities |
| Theme | Authors purpose |
| Character | main person(s) in a story |
| Setting | time and place |
| Onomatopeia | words that make sounds, ie buzzing bee |
| Personification | giving human qualities to objects |
| Inversion | switching sentance signtex |
| Demotation | Dictionary meaning of a word |
| Paraphrase | putting in your own words |
| Simile | comparision using like or as |
| Transcendental | To come beyond/ writting phlosophy |
| End rhymes | Rhyme at the end of a line |
| internal rhymes | Rhyme in the middle of a phrase |
| foils | opposite characters |
| foreshadow | hints of what will come |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| assonance | repition of vowel sounds |
| dialect | local language |
| Flashback | telling of prior events |
| Maxim | Pithy sayings |