Alliteration

The occurrence of the same sounds in neighboring words.

Allusion

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, or event.

Antithesis

When there are two opposite ideas together in a sentence.

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds inside or at the beginning of neighboring words.

Characterization

The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.

Conflict

The opposition between characters, nature, society, and themselves.

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of neighboring words.

Hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration.

Idiom

Everyday phrases that are understood as an entire culture but cannot be taken literally.

Imagery

The use of the 5 senses to create a visual.

Inference

A conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning.

Meiosis

An understatement.

Metaphor

A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as".

Mood

The emotions that the reader feels while they are reading.

Motif

A symbol that appears frequently or reapets throughout a story.

Onomatopoeia

A word whose sound reinforces the meaning.

Parallelism

Use of the same general structure for multiple parts of a sentence.

Personification

Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

Plot

The series of events in a story from the beginning to the end.

Pun

A play on wors to create a humorous effect.

Rhetorical Question

Asking a question where the answer is implied or not expected to be answered.

Setting

The time and place in which a story occurs.

Simile

A comparison between two things using "like" or "as".

Situational Irony

the opposite of what you expect to happen.

Symbolism

When an object represents an concept.

Synthesize

Combining multiple text or sources to see what they share in common.

Tone

The attitude that an author takes towards the audience, subject, or character through dialogue or details.

Verbal Irony

Saying one thing while meaning the opposite.

Volta

A turning point, or a climax point, in a poem.

Zeugma

When unexpected items in a sentence are linked together by a shared word.

Noun

A word representing a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.

Adjective

A word used to modify or describe a noun.

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.

Article

A word used to modify a noun, such as "a", "an", or "the".

Pronoun

A word that takes the place of a noun.

Preposition

A word showing the relation of a noun to other words.

Conjunction

A word used to connect clauses, sentences, or words.

Interjection

An abrupt remark expressing strong emotion.

Contraction

A shortened form of a word formed by omitting letters.