| A | B |
|---|
| hyberbole | exaggeration |
| second person | personal pronoun referring to the person spoken to - you, your, yours |
| foreshadowing | use of clues to predict what will happen later |
| alliteration | repitition of inital consonant sounds |
| allusion | reference to well known person, place or event |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character |
| characterization | act of creating and developing a character: DIRECT (stated directly) and INDIRECT (reader draws conclusions about the characters traits) |
| assonance | takes place when to or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound BUT start with different constant sounds |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses |
| metaphor | something described as though it was something else - points out the SIMILARITY |
| mood | feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| onomatopoeia | use of words to imitate sounds - BOOM, HISS |
| motif | central theme or diea |
| personification | figurative language in which a non human subject is given human characteristics |
| point of view | perspective or vantage point from which a story is told |
| first person | the narrator is a character in the story and refers to himself as I |
| second person | personal pronoun referring to the person spoken to - YOU YOUR YOURS |
| third person | limited - narrator relates to thoughts and feelings of ONE CHARACTER. Omniscient - narrator knows and tells about what EACH character feels and thinkgs |
| repitition | the use, more than once, of any element of language -- REPEAT |
| setting | time and placae |
| stanza | formal division of lines in a poem |
| couplet | two line stanza |
| protagonist | main character in a literary work |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem i.e. abababc |
| symbolism | something that stands for or reperesnts something else |
| theme | central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
| two types of characterization | DIRECT and INDIRECT |
| four types of conflict | person v person, person v self, person v nature, person v society |
| five points of plot | intro, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
| word choice | an act of selecting or making a decision about a word when more then one possibility |
| simile | figure of speech using LIKE OR AS |
