| A | B |
| protagonist | person or thing facing the problem,  |
| antagonist | usually the thing causing the problem; can be a person, weather, sickness, etc.,  |
| plot | the problem that is threaded throughout the entire story,  |
| resolution | the solution to the problem; can be good or bad,  |
| foreshadowing | hint about what will happen in the future; can be a thought, narrative comment, a thing that doesn't belong, or something described way to much,  |
| personification | treating a nonperson like a person,  |
| idioms | a phrase that can't be taken literally; you have to be aware of the context to find the meaning,  |
| puns | a joke; a play on words,  |
| irony | two things that don't belong together; a weird twist,  |
| conclusion | the end of the story |
| introduction | the beginning of the story that states the main idea |
| synonym | two words with similar meanings |
| antonym | two words that are the opposite |
| thesaurus | resource used to find synonyms and antonyms of kindergarten words,  |