WHO
An uncomplicated character who only has one or two character traits.
Flat/Static Character
A story cannot exist without it.
Conflict
Includes Clothing, Technology, Language, Customs/Culture, Weather, Historical Period, Time, & Place.
Setting
Giving human qualities to an animal or object.
Personification
I am literally starving to death.
Hyperbole
A character who grows and changes over the course of a text.
Dynamic/Round Character
The point of highest emotional intensity in a story.
Climax
Created by an author’s word choices and details of setting.
Mood
Comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
Simile
“While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.”
-The Raven
Alliteration
A narrator who lacks credibility.
Unreliable Narrator
Idea or insight about life and human nature
Theme
The use of sensory details.
Imagery
Comparing two things not using “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
The book was so popular it flew off the shelves
Personification
Requires the audience to observe the thoughts, actions, dialogue, etc. of a character to uncover their traits.
Indirect Characterization
“A persecuted girl fights back against the community who has judged her and failed to believe in her.”
Person vs. society
An object, event, person, or animal that stands both for itself and also for something else.
A series of words in a row (or close together) that have the same first consonant sound.
Alliteration
I wished my father would give it up and leave, but he was on the case like Sherlock Holmes.
Allusion/Metaphor
Character with qualities directly opposing those of the main character.
Foil
A word that stands for a sound.
Onomatopoeia
The audience knows more than the characters.
Dramatic Irony
The repetition of a vowel sound in nearby words.
Assonance
“And there are other dangers as well. It’s best to stay here.”
“What other dangers?”
“Nothing you need to concern yourself with. Not yet, at least.”
Foreshadowing