| A | B |
|---|
| Allegory | Type of literature where everything stands for abstract qualities |
| Analogy | A point by point comparison |
| Aphorism | A short true statement about life (Lost time is never found again) |
| Autobiography | A book about the author |
| Characterization | How a character's personality is revealed |
| Dialect | The way a certain group of people speak |
| Dramatic Irony | The audience knows but the character doesn't |
| Dynamic Character | Character who changes |
| External conflict | Character vs. outside world |
| Fiction | Not true |
| Figurative | Language not meant to be literal |
| Flashback | Breaking up the timeline of a plot |
| Foreshadowng | A hint of what's next |
| Foil | Opposite Characters |
| Haiku | 5-7-5 poem |
| Internal conflict | Person vs. Self |
| Limited | Narrator hears one person's thoughts |
| Monologue | One person speaking |
| Mood | Atmoshpere |
| Narrative | Tells a story |
| Narrator | Person telling the story |
| Nonfiction | True |
| Novel | Long fiction |
| Omniscient | Narrator hears all thoughts |
| Paradox | Seems to condradict itself, but is true |
| Plot | Series of events |
| Oxymoron | Phrase with two opposite words (thunderous silence) |
| Stanza | A paragraph of poetry |
| Static character | Character who does not change |
| Tragic Hero | Good character who dies because of a flaw |
| Theme | Main idea |
| Tone | Author's feelings toward a subject |
