| A | B |
|---|
| literary | having to do with literature |
| ballad | a poem or song that tells a story |
| cadence | rhythm |
| conundrum | a riddle whose answer involves a pun or play on words |
| couplet | two lines of poetry that belong together and usually rhyme |
| limerick | a form of humorous nonsense verse with five lines and a certain rhyme pattern |
| metaphor | a phrase or word that means one thing ordinarily but is applied to something else to make a comparison; a figure of speech |
| palindrome | word, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a lifeless thing or quality is spoken of as if it were alive |
| pun | a humorous use of a word that can have two meanings |
| quatrain | stanza or poem of four lines |
| simile | an expressed comparison of two different things or ideas using "like" or "as"; a likeness between things |
| stanza | a group of lines of poetry, arranged according to a fixed plan |
| stress | treat as important; put pressure on; emphasize |
| symbolism | representation by symbols; use of symbols |
| common noun | general names for a person, place or thing |
| proper noun | specific (particular) names of certain people, places or things; we show these by capitalizing the first letter |
| comprehension | the act or power of understanding |
| judgement | decision; opinion |
| infer | to find out by thinking; to conclude |
| speculate | reflect; consider |
| diacritical mark | a mark placed over a letter to show stress or accent |
| heteronym | a word spelled like another but different in pronunciation and meaning |
| idiom | a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of words |
| irregular (verbs) | not according to rule; out of the usual order or natural way |
| adverb | usually modify or describe verbs; also modify adjectives and themselves; describe verbs by telling how, when, and where |
| graphic | of or about a draing or picture |
| summarize | to give only the main points |
| dialogue | conversation; talking |
