| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the sequence of events |
| 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 |
| epithet | a description adjective or phrase used to characterize someone or something |
| 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 |
| diction | a writer's choice of words for clarity, effectiveness and precision |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| 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 |
| analogy | an extended comparison showing the similarities between two things |
| aside | word spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone and not intended |
