| A | B |
| Foreshadowing | a hint of suggestion of beforehand |
| Theme | a subject or topic of discourse |
| Comedy | a light amusing play with a happy ending |
| Foil | one that serves as acontrast to another |
| Allusion | to refer to indirectly |
| Mythology | a body of myths dealing with the gods and heroes of a people |
| Irony | the use of words to express the opposite of what one really means |
| Flashback | intro into an event of earlier occurrence |
| episodic | to contain a unit of action in literary work |
| Vignette | a short descriptive literary sketch |
| Allegory | the expression through symbolic figures and actions of truth about human conduct |
| Point of view | the way a literary book is written; from the actual person's view or about someone or something else |