Language Features
Descriptive language appealing to senses
Imagery
Introduces the characters, setting, and normal world
Orientation
appearance, personality, backstory, motivations, and flaws
Character
a punctuation mark used to indicate the intentional omission of words, phrases, or lines from a text. It also signals a pause in speech, an unfinished thought, or trailing thought.
Ellipses
the narrator is a character within the story
First person
Comparing two things directly (e.g., "Her voice is music")
Metaphor
The turning point or highest point of conflict
Climax
the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
Setting
used to indicate an abruptly unfinished thought, interrupted speech
Hyphen / Dash
a point of view where an outside narrator tells a story using pronouns like "he," "she," "it," and "they," rather than "I" or "you"
Third person
Giving human qualities to non-human things (e.g., "The wind screamed")
Personification
The conclusion where the conflict is resolved
Resolution
an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature
Theme
used to separate items in a series, set off non-essential information, and connect independent clauses with conjunctions
Comma
The narrator speaks directly to the reader, making the reader a character
Second person
Deliberate exaggeration for effect (e.g., "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse")
Hyperbole
A series of obstacles that build tension and deepen the plot
Complication
The sequence of events
Plot
enclose direct quotes, dialogue, titles of short works, or ironic "scare quotes."
Quotation marks
Repetition of initial consonant sounds (e.g., "Slithering snakes")
Alliteration
Structure that includes: Orientation, Complication, Climax, Resolution
Freytag Structure
The perspective from which the story is told (first-person, third-person limited, or third-person omniscient)
Point of view
a punctuation symbol used at the end of sentences or short phrases to express strong emotion, high volume, surprise, or emphasis
Exclamation mark