1. Hyperbole

2. An extreme exaggeration

3. Exposition

4. Beginning of a story that gives needed information

5. Falling Action

6. The tying up of loose ends after the climax of a story

7. Metaphor

8. Comparison of two things WITHOUT "like" or "as"

9. Cliché

10. Phrase so overused it has lost meaning or effect

11. Irony

12. The opposite of what is expected

13. Rhetorical Question

14. A question is asked, but no answer is expected/needed

15. Assonance

16. The Repetition of Vowel Sounds

17. Theme

18. Moral or Lesson in a story (an ENTIRE sentence long)

19. Understatement

20. Description which greatly plays down the importance of a subject

21. Characterization

22. Description/Making of a character

23. Fable

24. Brief tale with animal characters which provides a clear moral or lesson

25. Aphorism

26. Brief statement that expresses a truth about life

27. Audience

28. Those who are intended to read a piece of writing

29. Resolution

30. The end of a conflict (end of a story)

31. Foreshadowing

32. Hints given to the reader about what is to happen

33. Allegory

34. A story with two meanings: one simple, one deep

35. Consonance

36. Repetition of Consonant Sounds

37. Analogy

38. Relating unlike things helps us to understand them

39. Point of View

40. Antagonist

41. Enemy/Opponent to the Protagonist

42. Figurative Language

43. Decorative writing: includes similes, metaphors, etc.

44. Onomatopoeia

45. Words which imitate sounds

46. Mood

47. Atmosphere created by the author

48. Symbol

49. Word, Picture that represents something else

50. Personification

51. Human qualities given to ideas, objects or animals

52. Connotation

53. Different meanings of words due to emotion or situation

54. Parallelism

55. All parts of sentence are equal/equally important

56. Rising Action

57. Events that lead to the Climax of a story

58. Imagery

59. Detailed writing that affects the senses

60. Climax

61. Turning Point of a story

62. Satire

63. Foolish ideas are ridiculed to improve society (written sarcasm)

64. Allusion

65. Referring to another story/event

66. Alliteration

67. 1st letter repeated: “Peter Piper Picked a Peck…”

68. Denotation

69. Literal, Dictionary meaning of a word

70. Oxymoron

71. Two contradictory terms put together