| 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 |