| A | B |
| sequence of events | exposition, initial incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to help readers predict what will happen later in a story |
| types of irony | verbal, dramatic, and situational |
| tode | the attitude the author takes toward the subject of the story |
| end rhyme | when the words of a poem rhyme at the end of the lines |
| internal rhyme | when the words of a poem rhyme within the same line |
| meter | the pattern of rhythem in a line of poetry |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sound, such as buzz or hiss |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonants in two or more nearby words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds in conjunction with dissimilar vowel sounds |
| synesthesia | the description of one kind of sensory impression by using words that usually describe another (mixing the senses) |