All terms in this list:

situational irony: when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be.

Verbal Irony: When a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying.

Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie or novel does not.

Connotation: The figurative or emotional meaning of a word.

Denotation: The primary, literal or explicit meaning of a word or phrase-the dictionary definition.

Context Clues: Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.

Tone: The author's attitude towards the topic or subject of a text.

Speaker: The voice in a poem.

Theme: The universal message or lesson of a text.

Extended Metaphor: A metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences in a text.

Inference: an educated guess based on prior knowledge and the text.

ISWBST: The central idea of a fiction text.

Analyze: To break a text down in order to gain a better understanding.