| A | B |
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| Diction | word choice |
| Faust Legend | archtype where character sells his soul to the devil |
| Iambic pentameter | Meter that uses a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable; and five feet per line |
| Parable | A simple story teaching a moral or religious lesson |
| Point of View | Revealing character by including characters’ thoughts, words, actions, or personality traits |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats created by the arrange-ment of stressed and unstressed syllables, especially in poetry |
| Speaker | The voice that talks to the reader. Like a nar-rator in prose |
| Symbol | A person, place, or thing that has meaning in itself and also represents something larger |
| Theme | Central message or insight revealed by a literary work |
| Tone | A reflection of a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject matter |
| Onomatopoeia | "Tapping, rapping" |
| Alliteration | "While I nodded, nearly napping" |
| Assonance | "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting" |
| Consonance | "And the silken, sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" |
