| A | B |
| elegy | a sorrowful or mournful poem for remembering the dead |
| antithesis | a clear oppositeness; contrast |
| plot | the story line or order of events in a book, play, or movie |
| narrator | a person or character who tells a story |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two different things are compared by using the words "like" or "as." |
| metaphor | a phrase that describes something by comparing it to some other thing |
| analogy | similarity or correspondence between two otherwise dissimilar things |
| imagery | descriptive language that conjures pictures or feelings in the mind while reading or looking at art |
| Islam | a religion founded by Muhammad. Its holy book is called the Koran. |
| Arabic | related to a member of a southwest Asian people that makes up most of the population of parts of the Middle East |