| A | B |
|---|
| Vice | sin |
| Vixen | a shrewish, ill-tempered woman |
| Malinger | to shirk responsibilities or be truant |
| Mite | a very small object or amount |
| Lintel | horizontal beam over a door or window |
| Brazen | bold |
| Rogue | scoundrel |
| Old wives’ tale | superstitious belief |
| Hedonistic | self-indulgently pleasure-seeking |
| Blithe | carefree |
| Amoral | without morals |
| Cynical | skeptical or scornfully pessimistic |
| Lecherous | lustful |
| Heedless | neglectful or reckless |
| Duplicitous | untrustworthy; deceitful |
| Precarious | uncertain or unstable |
| Redress | to compensate or make reparations |
| Repugnance | revulsion or disgust |
| Penitence | remorse or atonement; contrition |
| Resurrect | to bring back to life or revive |
| Irony | a twist or discrepancy between what happens or is said and what one would expect |
| chiasmus | A rhetorical inversion or criss-crossing of the second of two parallel structures, as in "Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye" |
| understatement | a rhetorical device using restrained terms or expression that means less than it should |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| wordplay | clever or witty manipulation of language |
| motif | recurring subject, theme, idea, symbol, etc. in a literary, artistic or musical work |
| Omniscient | all-knowing narrative point of view in which narrator is outside the action of the story |
| Third-person | point of view in which narrator is outside the action of the story; may be omniscient or limited |
| Genre | type of literature (poem, play, tragedy, epic, etc.) |
| Fable | a short tale to teach a moral lesson featuring animals or inanimate objects as characters |
| Parable | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach a truth, moral principle, or moral lesson |
| Dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent listener at a critical moment, reveals aspects of his personality or the situation |
| Prose poem | a composition written as a prose (non-verse) but having the concentrated, rhythmic, figurative language characteristic of poetry |
