Fig. Lang
The operation of relation of a cause and its effect.
Cause & Effect
Warning or indication of a future event.
Foreshadowing
The most important point or idea that an author wants to convey.
Main Idea
Where a story takes place.
Setting
A scene that is set in a time earlier than the main story.
Flashback
Dialect
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman.
Personification
The main events of the story, novel, etc. that are presented by the writer as interrelated sequence.
Plot
Comparison using "like" or "as".
Simile
The use of symbols to represent ideas.
Symbolism
The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
Sarcasm
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inference
Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Onomatopoeia
The state or feeling of excitement or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
Suspense
The general character or attitude of a piece of work.
Tone
The subject of a piece.
Theme
Suggest or call attention to indirectly; to hint at.
Allusion
Phrase having a meaning not realistic to the individual words.
Idiom
Emotional atmosphere or feeling that a piece creates for the reader.
Mood
Words or phrases inserted into a sentence that provide information but not essential to the sentence meaning.
Parentheticals
Word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
A joke exploiting different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but are different
Pun
Story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, moral or political.
Allegory
Attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
Anthropomorphism