| A | B |
| Allegory | A story where characters or settings represent moral ideas |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sound |
| Allusion | Reference to a work or item outside of story |
| Assonance | Repetition of a vowel |
| Blank verse | Urn hymned iambic pentameter |
| Conceit | An extended metphor |
| Couplet | Two rhyming lines of poetry |
| Extended metaphor | A repeated metaphor |
| Folk tale | Traditional story meant to tell a story |
| Gothic tale | A story with creepy setting , supernatural characters |
| Hyperbole | A strong exaggeration |
| Iambic pentameter | A pattern of unstressed and stashed syllables, dating a. Total of ten syllables |
| Imagery | Putting I age in the readers mind |
| Inversion | Inverted syntax |
| Irony( verbal,dramatic, and situational) | What is said or expected is different fm what happened |
| Metaphor | Comparison without like as or then |
| Meter | The rhythmic pattern of a poem |
| Paradox | Contradictory statement |
| Rhyme(internal,end) | Words that sound alike |
| Romanticism | Literary genre were emotion is stressed and untamed nature |
| Satire | A work that criticizes society |
| Simile | Comparison the uses like as or then |
| Stereotype | A stock character |
| Symbol | When an object posses higher meaning |