| A | B |
|---|
| Omniscience | All-knowing |
| Personify | A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human qualities. EX: tonight the waves march. |
| Protagonist | The main character in a literary work |
| Quatrain | A four line poem or a stanza with four lines. |
| Rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming wordsin a poem. EX: abba, abaabcbcb |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language. In prose it is often irregular and in traditional poetry a regular rhythmical pattern or meter is used |
| Scansion | The process of figuring out a poem's metrical pattern. |
| Sonnet | A 14 line lyric poem focused on a single theme. They are usually written in iambic pentameter. |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects using like or as. EX: plants circle in the gathering dark like pale insects |
| Soliloquy | Along speech made by a character who is alone. The character reveals his or her private thoughts and feeling to the audience. |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit. They function as paragraphs do in prose. |
| Static character | A character in a story who throughout the action of the story stats essentially the same. |
| Subplot | A second, less important plot within a story. |
| Tragedy | A type of drama or literature that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstanding person. |
| Vernacular | The ordinary language used by the people in a particular place. Writers use this to create realistic characters or to approach readers informally. |
