A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses.
Image
What's the Latin root word for "look"?
Spec
What's the Latin root word for "hand"?
Man
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
Mood
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
Tone
The structure of sentences.
Syntax
A figure of speech that uses like or as.
Simile
The time and place of the action.
Setting
Writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
Fiction
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
Metaphor
Refers to an author's choice of words.
Diction
A struggle between opposing forces.
Conflict
Antagonist
A restatement of a passage from an original text.
Paraphrase
A speaker or character who tells a story.
Narrator
A section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to relate an event from an earlier time.
Flashback
The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
Foreshadowing
The key message that the writer wants to communicate about a topic
Claim
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
Allusion
Shows how one event or situation leads to another.
Cause and Effect Relationship