| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| characterization | personality trait of characters |
| theme | central message of a work |
| style | writers way of writing |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) |
| symbolism | uses something to represent something else |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| mood and atmosphere | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| satire | writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, social convention |
| simile | making comparisons between two subjects using like or as |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken of as if it were something else |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| alliteration | repetition of first sound (Peter Piper picked) - repeated at least two times |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work to make the writing stronger |
| inference | a guess of what can be |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem - paragraphs, stanzas |
| rhyme scheme | the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| flashback | a section in a literary work that interrupts the chronological order of events to relate an event from an earlier time. (goes back in time) |
| protagonist | the good main character |
| antagonist | the bad main character |
| round (dynamic) character | the character that changes (Scrooge) |
| flat (static) character | the character that does not change |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word or phrase that imitates the sound of what it describes |
| synonym | words that have the same or similar meaning |
| antonym | words that have opposite meanings |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| homophones | words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings |
| Rhyme | the repetition of similar sounds within a poem |
| End Rhyme | the repetition of similar sounds that occur at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
| Assonance | the repeating of vowel sounds, especially in a line of poetry |
| Dramatic irony | when the reader know something that the character does not |
| Idiom | the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression |
| climax | the high point of the story |
| conflict | in a story/poem it is the problem that exists |
| pun | a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested |
| understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect |
| consonance | When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words |
| rhythm | When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat |
| syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language |
| kenning | a special kind of extended metaphor |
