| A | B |
|---|
| Lyric | Express feelings of emotions or thought |
| Metaphor | A statement that says one thing is something else but, literally, it is not |
| Metonymy | Substituting one term with another, Examples is sweat of your brow meaning hard work |
| Motif | Recurring object, concept or structure (Good and Evil) |
| Myth | Explain how the world was created or why the world was created the way that it was |
| Narrative | Collections of events that tell a story, which may be true or not, placed in a particular order |
| Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story |
| Narrator | Who's telling a story |
| Participant Narrator | Narrator who is in the story |
| Observer Narrator | Narrator indirectly involved in the story |
| Non Participant Narrative | Narrator who is not involved in the action of the story |
| Parable | Brief story with moral or religious lesson |
| Personification | Animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics |
| Persona | The voice through which the author speaks |
| Omniscient Point of View | All knowing, Narrator moves from one character to another as necessary |
| Protagonist | Main character, Often the hero |
| Rhyme | Repetition of similarly accented sound or sounds |
| Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of rhyme (aba) |
| Setting | Time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs |
| Simile | Comparing two otherwise unlike things or ideas using like or as |
| Slant Rhyme | Near rhyme, half rhyme, off rhyme |
| Sonnet | 14 lines with a repeated pattern (abba, abba, cde, cde or abab cdcd efef gg) |
| Symbol | Word or object that stands for another word or object |
| Theme | Thought or idea incorporated in the work that may be deep, difficult to understand, or even moralistic |
| Unreliable Narrator | One who gives his or her understanding of the story, instead of the explanation and interpretation the author wishes the audience to obtain |
