| A | B |
|---|
| tragedy | has an unhappy ending; protagonist loses |
| onomatopoeia | word sounding like its meaning - Crash, Boom, Bang |
| setting | time and place |
| personification | human characteristics given to non human things - "car screamed" |
| climax | turning point of plot |
| act | major division of a play |
| stanza | division of a poem |
| resolution | final outcome |
| fiction | writing based on imagination |
| conflict | struggle upon which work of fiction is based |
| soliloquy | actor speaking his thoughts alone |
| metaphor | comparison using "is" - He is a superhero. |
| protagonist | main character |
| foreshadowing | hint of something to come |
| exposition | background information |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" - She sang like a songbird. |
| irony | opposite of what one would normally expect |
| alliteration | repetition of initial sounds - Suzy sells seashells down by the seashore. |
| novel | long work of prose fiction |
| plot | plan of a work of fiction |
| theme | the message about life or nature that the author wants the reader to get from the piece of literature; the lesson to be learned |
| inciting force | event in the beginning of the book that gets the reader's attention |
| antagonist | a character or force working against the protagonist |
| point of view | the person through whose eyes the reader sees the action of the story - 1st person = "I" 3rd person ="he", "she", "they" |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| flashback | section of writng that takes place at some point before the rest of the story takes place |
