| A | B |
|---|
| amicable | friendly; peaceable |
| anguish | great mentalor physical pain |
| blithe | cheerful; carefree |
| defiant | bold resistance to authority |
| desolate | lonely; solitary; laid to waste |
| despondent | without hope |
| disgruntled | peevishly disconected |
| disillusionment | freedom from illusion or idealism, usually involving bitterness |
| distress | to cause misery or suffering |
| exuberant | characterized by good health and high spirits |
| memoir | a short written autobiographical piece |
| "showing" language | the opposite of telling language |
| commentary | a critique of something |
| dialogue | two people talking to one another |
| flat character | a character the reader knows little about |
| round character | a character the author develops full, so the reader knows much about him/her |
| dynamic character | a character who changes during the course of the book |
| static character | a character who pretty much stays the same in the book |
| pace | the speed of the plot of the story |
| voice | the tone or mood of a piece of writing |
| anthology | a group of writing pieces, stories, or poems |
| theme | the main idea or message |
| point of view | perspective of a character |
| lead | the way a story starts |
| rising action | the part of the plot which gradually ascends towards the climax |
| climax | the high point of the action |
| alliteration | the repetitionof beginning consonant sounds |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds |
| end rhyme | when the last word in a line of poetry rhymes with the last word in another line |
| rhyme scheme | the patern of rhyme in a pome |
| internal rhyme | rhyming within a line of poetry |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that initate sounds |
| rhyme | the pattern of stresses, or in spoken or writen language |
| meter | the rhythmic pattern of a poem |
| figurative language | writing or speech that is not ment to be taken literally |
| image | is a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which somthing is described as though it were somthing else without using the words "like" or "as" |
| personifacation | a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| simile | a figure of speech of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike subjects USING the words "like" or "as" |
| symbol | somthing that represents somthing else |
