| A | B |
| protagonist | main character/hero/heroine |
| antagonist | villian/bad guy |
| utopia | highly desirable/perfect qualities |
| dystopia | undesirable/frightening qualities |
| Theme/Central Idea | moral or lesson about life that a reader can take with them from a text |
| Suspense | a feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by a reader. |
| First person | A character in the story serves as the narrator |
| Third person | an outside narrator tells the story and zooms in on thoughts, feelings and actions of one characters |
| Figurative language | creates images of what something looks, sounds, or feels like. Works are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true |