| A | B |
| dialect | a regional variety of language used by the members of a groyp |
| protagonist | the main character who is the "good guy" |
| onomatopoeia | a word whose meaning imitates its sound |
| pun | a play on words |
| stereotype | based on prior assumption; a standardized convention about ideas, characters, plots, and settings |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by consonant sounds |
| rhyme | repetition or similar or identical sounds |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme among lines of poetry |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit in a poem |
| symbolism | one thing used to represent something else |
| imagery | language that appeals to the five senses |
| irony | a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that is unexpected |