| A | B |
|---|
| assurance | a guarantee or pledge |
| collapse | to break down or fall apart suddenly and cease to function |
| conceive | to understand or form in the mind; to devise |
| devote | to give one's entire energy or attention to something or someone |
| vision | ability to see; insight |
| affliction | something that causes suffering or pain |
| purge | to eliminate or wash away |
| infamous | having a bad reputation |
| taut | tense or tightly fixed |
| pilgrimage | a journey to a historical or religious site |
| loathsome | hateful or repulsive |
| allusion | an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work |
| universal theme | a message that can be found throughout the literature of all time periods |
| theme | the underlying messages an author wants the audience to understand |
| ethos | refers to an ethical appeal that relies on the credibility of the speaker |
| pathos | In this method of appeal, a speaker tries to provoke an emotional response from the audience |
| logos | A speaker using this type of appeal supports his or her claim with reasons and evidence such as facts, examples, and statistics |
| connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) |
| mood and atmosphere | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| inference | a guess of what can be |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| protagonist | the good main character |
| antagonist | the bad main character |
| climax | the high point of the story |
| conflict | in a story/poem it is the problem that exists |
| symbolism | uses something to represent something else |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| satire | writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, social convention |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| kenning | a specialized metaphor made of compound words or phrases |
| Hyphenated kenning | A kenning that is written as hyphenated compounds, i.e sky-candle |
| Prepositional kenning | A kenning with a prepositional phrases, i.e wolf of wounds |
| Possessive kenning | A kenning that shows something or someone possessing something, i.e the sword’s tree |
| Compound kenning | A kenning that consists of more than one word or a compound word |
