| A | B |
|---|
| allegory | story in which characters represent abstract ideas |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| allusion | reference to someone or something |
| antagonist | major character who opposes the protagonist |
| archetype | character who represents a certain type of characrer |
| assonance | repetition of vowel souds |
| atmosphere | the overall feeling of a work |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of poetry |
| characterization | the means by which an author establishes character |
| climax | the emotional peak of a story |
| conflict | elements (internal or external) that create the plot |
| contrast | to explain how two things differ |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| denouement | resolution of the conflict after the climax |
| dramatic monologue | poem with a fictional narrator addressed to someone the audience knows but doesn't say anything |
| elegy | a poem mourning the dead |
| end rhyme | rhyming words at the end of lines |
| epic | long poem about a heroic figure |
| fable | a story that illustrates a moral |
| figurative language | language that doesn't mean exactly what it says |
| point of view | the view from which a story is told |
| foreshadowing | clues about what will happen later in the story |
| free verse | poetry with no set meter or rhyme |
| genre | a kind of style, usually of art or literature |
| hyperbole | a huge exaggeration |
| iambic pentameter | ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed |
