| A | B |
|---|
| biography | story of a real person's life written by another person |
| autobiography | story of a person's life written by another person |
| essay | a short piece of nonfiction prose |
| mood | overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| irony | contrast between what is expected and what really happens |
| speaker | the voice talking to us in a poem |
| stanza | in a poem, a group of lines that form a unit |
| theme | an idea about life revealed in a work of literature |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character |
| plot | series of related events that make up a story |
