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An object, animal or idea given human attributes
Personification
An exaggeration of an idea
Hyperbole
Waving a white flag anxiously in the middle of a battle.
Symbolism
We didn't want to drive so we took the train to the city and back home.
First Person Point of View
The Forbidden Forest is one in Harry Potter.
Setting
The repeated use of a consonant.
Alliteration
An object that stands for an idea, belief or action.
Tim took tons of tools to make toys for the tots.
Alliteration
Your explanation is as clear as mud.
Simile
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Onomatopoeia
The author hints at what is to come later in the story.
Foreshadowing
The central idea or message of a story.
Theme
"This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air." -The Great Gatsby
Imagery
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all."
Metaphor
Give an example of foreshadowing from a book or movie that you have seen or read before.
Your example
significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
Irony
The words "I' and "we" are used to narrate the story.
Firs Person Point of View
"Montag stopped eating… he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house."
Allusion to Alison in Wonderland
"Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger." -Pride and Prejudice
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
The difference between tone and mood is...
Tone is the author's feelings toward the subject, mood is how the feeling or atmosphere the reader creates in his or her own mind.
A brief, indirect reference to a person, historical event, cultural event, political event, or idea.
Allusion
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
As Macbeth speaks of wanting to kill King Duncan, King Duncan waits outside Macbeth's palace singing the praises of Macbeth.
Irony
“Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened, and stuff came out and turned red. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone." -Lord of the Flies
Tone
"We'll cross that bridge when we get there." is an example of what kind of literary device?
Idiom