| A | B |
|---|
| tone | author's attitude toward a subject |
| irony | contrast what appears to be and what really is |
| setting | time and place of action |
| flowery | fancy |
| imagery | concrete words appealing to the senses |
| allusion | reference to an historiacl person or event |
| homophone | word with same pronunciation as another word but different spelling and meaning |
| figurative language | language used to express relationships between unlike things |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike things |
| characterization | method author uses to show what character is like |
| hyperbole | great exaggeration |
| rhythm | arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| rhyme | exact repetition of sounds |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
| plot | conflict climax resolution |
| theme | main idea of literary work |
| thesis statement | a reasoned argument |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter |
| internal rhyme | rhyming words within the lines |
| suffix | sound added to the end of a word |
| context | parts of a work which affect a passage's significance |
| antonym | opposite |
| haiku | Japanese poetry form |
| couplet | two lines that rhyme |
| ballad | song-like poem |
| narrative poem | tells a story |
| acrostic | initial letters in each line spell a word |
| limerick | five-line nonsense verse |
| free verse | poetry with no rules |
