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Giving human characteristics and/or qualities to non-human things?
Personification
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or connected words.
Alliteration
A spoken interchange between character in a text, commonly between two or more characters or speakers.
Dialogue
A writer or speaker's feeling toward a subject, character or audience communicated through the author's choice of words and detail; it can be formal, informal, serious, and humorous.
Tone
When stories are told typically using "I" and "me" and limits what the audience knows.
First Person Narrator
A figure of speech in which two different or dissimilar things are directly compared using "like" or "as"; there are often used to connect ideas or objects in a creative or unexpected way?
Simile
The emotional atmosphere of a story or text; it elicits feelings from the reader; writers create this through setting, imagery, tone, and diction?
Mood
A character's struggling takes place inside the character's mind, usually involving the main character's inner struggle.
Person vs. Self Conflict
A person, animal, or other being used in a literary work to perform the action, speak dialogue, and/or move the plot forward.
Character
An implied comparison that is untrue in a literal way; these can help illustrate or describe a concept or situation by comparing it to something else
Metaphor
The quality of uncertainty of an outcome within a text, which can be constructed through the intentional use of specific information, literary devices, perspectives, points of view, and/or text structures?
Suspense
The perspectives that speaks to an audience or tells a story within a text; in an informative text this voice is most often the author; in a literary text, this voice can take many forms including but not limited to, a character inside the story or a neutral observer.
Narrator
Who has the perspective that provides the reader with more insight into what is happening in the story by sharing the thoughts and feelings of one or more characters, thus providing the motives and perspectives of the characters involved in the story?
Narrator
When a character has conflict against the weather, the wilderness, an earthquake, or a volcano?
Person vs. Nature conflict
The time and place in which a narrative occurs; it can also include the historical period, weather, and other details about the surroundings, both real and/or fictional, and can contribute to the mood of the text.
Setting
A word that mimics the sound it represents. Example: boom, oink, sizzle)
Onomatopoeia
Writing that tells a story, often using devices such as plot structure, narrator, characters, dialogue, sensory details, and figurative language.
Narrative writing
Flashback
When a character is placed in opposition with the government, or a cultural tradition or societal norm of some kind?
Person vs. Societal Conflict
When a character has a struggle that pits one person against another.
Person vs. Person conflict
Words used that are usually common to speakers of certain languages or regions that may be different from their literal meaning. Example: "it's raining cats and dogs"
Idiom
The series of events included in a narrative; the main part is the conflict, which drives the story.
Plot
Inflated or overstated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally; intentional exaggeration to emphasize a point or to add humor.
Hyperbole
The major idea or underlying message that a literary text communicates and often begins with the identification of a lesson.
Theme
When a character faces struggle from a force, such as fate, magical forces, otherworldly beings, religion, or gods?
Person vs. Supernatural Conflict