| A | B |
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| act | a major division of a play |
| protagonist | central character in a literary work |
| allusion | reference in a work of literature to something from another work |
| autobiography | story of a person's life written by that person |
| ballad | a song or poem that tells a story |
| character | an individual in a literary work |
| characterization | method an author uses to reveal a character's personality |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a literary work |
| foreshadowing | an author's use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| genre | a category or type of literature |
| moral | a practical lesson about right and wrong conduct |
| plot | sequence of events in a literary work |
| props | theater slang for articles or objects used in a play or movie |
| pun | a humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word |
| scene | a subdivision of an act in a play |
| setting | the time and place in which the events of a story occur |
| stanza | a paragraph of poetry |
| symbol | something that represents something else |
| title | the name of a literary work |
| simile | indirect comparison using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | direct comparison without "like" or "as" |
| figurative language | language not meant to be taken literally |
| anastrophe | unusual word order |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| allegory | a literary representation with more than one level of meaning |
| juxtaposition | comparison of two things by placing them side by side |
| blank verse | unrhymed, iambic pentameter |
| diction | word choice |
| syntax | word order |
| synonyms | pairs of words with similar meanings |
| antonyms | pairs of words with opposite meanings |
| homonyms | words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings |
| noun | person, place, thing, or idea |
| verb | action word |
| adjective | modifies a noun |
| adverb | modifies an adjective, verb, or adverb |
| conjunction | words that join words or clauses together |
| fragment | an incomplete though |
| sentence | a complete thought |
