Lane-7B Reading Literature Vocab

vivid writing that appeals to the senses

• verse

• suspense

• imagery

• exposition

the anxiety a reader feels about what may happen next in a story

• tone

• internal rhyme

• refrain

• suspense

the time and place of a story

• resolution

• setting

• hyperbole

• alliteration

a comparison of unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object or thing

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

where the setting, characters, and basic situation are revealed

• exposition

• flashback

• plot

• theme

the most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist; a turning point in the story

• flashback

• mood

• similie

• climax

a single line of a poem

• stanza

• refrain

• verse

• stanza

the atmosphere or feeling created by a work of literature

• mood

• tone

• plot

• theme

the repetition of vowel sounds among words

• alliteration

• idiom

• irony

• assonance

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound among words

• alliteration

• assonance

• hyperbole

• simile