| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| characterization | personality trait of characters |
| theme | central message of a work |
| style | writers way of writing |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) |
| symbolism | uses something to represent something else |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| mood and atmosphere | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| inference | a guess of what can be |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| flashback | a section in a literary work that interrupts the chronological order of events to relate an event from an earlier time. (goes back in time) |
| protagonist | the good main character |
| antagonist | the bad main character |
| synonym | words that have the same or similar meaning |
| antonym | words that have opposite meanings |
| climax | the high point of the story |
| conflict | in a story/poem it is the problem that exists |
