| A | B |
| stanza | part or section of a poem |
| alliteration | the use of the same letter sound (usually at the beginning of words) in a poem |
| repetition | doing or saying something over and over |
| genre | a class or category of something especially in the arts |
| fable | a fictional story that teaches a moral and often involves talking animals |
| biography | type of nonfiction text that tells about a person's life |
| autobiography | a type of nonfiction that involves someone writing about his or her own life |
| rhyming words | words that have the same ending sound |
| drama | type of text that involves some sort of conflict |
| myth | type of fiction writing that explains how something came about in nature; prominent in Native American culture |