| A | B |
|---|
| setting | time and place |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| flashback | events that happened earlier |
| personification | gives an inanimate object human qualities |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike items |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| irony | an unexpected twist or turn of events |
| hero | a person to be admired / main character |
| theme | the underlying message or meaning of a story |
| soliloquy | a speech in which a character speaks his thoughts aloud |
| cliffhanger | an episode that ends suspensefully in a story |
| aside | a short speech to another character or the audience that is not heard by the other characters onstage |
