| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| theme | central message of a work |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| simile | making comparisons between two subjects using like or as |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken of as if it were something else |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| alliteration | repetition of first sound (Peter Piper picked) - repeated at least two times |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work to make the writing stronger |
| 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) |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words (such as hiss or murmur) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration of the truth. |
| idiom | an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. |
