| A | B | 
|---|
| unreliable narrator | a first person storyteller who is biased | 
| allusion | a reference to something outside the text | 
| 3rd person objective | when the reader can't get into any character's head | 
| static | a character who stays the same | 
| paradox | something that seems contradictory but makes sense | 
| verbal irony | saying one thing but meaning something else | 
| allegory | a story that has a deeper, symbolic meaning | 
| dialect | how a particular group of people speaks | 
| diction | word choice | 
| inference | understanding what the author is implying |