a literary device that writers utilize as a means to indicate or hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.
What is FORESHADOWING.
a literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader.
What is IMAGERY.
a literary device for the artful ridicule of folly or vice as a means of exposing or correcting it.
What is SATIRE.
a poetic phrase or speech made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not literally present in the literary work. The subject may be dead, absent, an inanimate object, or even an abstract idea.
What is an APOSTROPHE.
a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
What is an ALLUSION.