| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| characterization | personality traits of characters |
| theme | central message of a work, lesson or moral |
| style | writers way of writing |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) |
| symbolism | uses something to represent something else |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| mood and atmosphere | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| 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 (Ex. The music sobbed.) |
| 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 |
| inference | a logical guess based on clues in the story |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem |
| rhyme scheme | the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader (often appeals to the senses) |
| 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) |
| protagonist | the main character; usually the good guy |
| antagonist | the character or force opposing the main character; usually the bad guy |
| dynamic character | a character that changes by the end of the story; usually an emotional change |
| static character | a character that does not change |
