| A | B |
| ALLITERATION | "The twisting trout twinkled below." |
| HYPERBOLE | "...the shot heard 'round the world..." |
| METAPHOR | "Time is money." |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | "buzz" "bang" "hiss" "splash" |
| PERSONIFICATION | "The train wailed in the night." |
| METAPHOR | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. |
| PROTAGONIST | the main character of a story. Can be a person or an animal |
| ANTAGONIST | The character or a force in conflict with a main character |
| CONFLICT | a struggle between opposing forces. It causes the action. |
| SYMBOLISM | something that stands for something else. A crown is a symbol of a king's status and authority. |
| SIMILE | a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between two unlike ideas. "Pale as a ghost." |
| MOOD | The feeling created by a story. |
| IMAGERY | imagery is the description of how things and people in a story look, sound, feel, taste, and smell |