| A | B |
| historical setting | a setting in which significant events in history have occurred |
| parallelism | statements expressed in the same grammatical form |
| oration | formal speech |
| rhetorical question | question not meant to be answered |
| anecdote | a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event |
| editorial | an article giving the editor's opinion on some subject |
| editorial cartoon | a cartoon depicting an opinion or slant on important issues in the news |
| analogy | relationship of one thing to another |
| caricature | a picture that exaggerates the usual features of a person or thing |
| humor | funny or amusing quality |
| bias | prejudice |
| propaganda | a plan or method for spreading opinions or beliefs |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, thing, or event from myth, history, earlier literature or some other source |
| stanza | a formal division of lines in a poem, usually separated by spaces |
| verse | a poem or a stanza in a poem |
| meter | the rhythmical pattern of a poem |
| iambic pentameter | a line of ten syllables in which every second syllable is accented |
| imagery | the use of a word or phrase that appeals to one of the five senses |
| lyric poetry | highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |