| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound |
| allusion | a reference to another story or character |
| antagonist | the character who works against the hero |
| protagonist | the hero of the story |
| archetype | a setting, character or plot that is found in many different stories |
| catalog | a list |
| cliche | an overused expression |
| connotation | the feeling(s) associated with a word |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| idiom | a common expression that does not mean literally what it says |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| inversion | reversing the normal order of a sentence |
| irony | the opposite of what is expected |
| metaphor | a comparison in which one thing IS another; not using "like" or "as". |
| metonymy | substituting a related word for the one that is meant |
| oxymoron | pairing opposite words together |
| paradox | a statement about life that seems untrue at first |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human objects |
| understatement | saying less than what is meant |
| vernacular | language of the people of a particular region |
