Schemes
When several words in a line use the same initial consonant or vowel sound.
Alliteration
A trope in which human characteristics are attributed to an inanimate object.
Personification
Tensions or difficulties faced by the characters in a story; it may be internal or external.
Conflict
An event that hints at upcoming events.
Foreshadowing
The use of objects or characters to represent ideas.
The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession for emphasis.
Polysyndeton
An implicit comparison between two things, or between a character or event and a broader theme, concept or idea without using like or as.
Metaphor
The events and/or course of action that move a story along.
Plot
An indirect reference to another literary work or historical figure or event.
Allusion
A work of fiction that is published in sequential pieces called installments.
Serial Novel
Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase (not always at the beginning of a word like alliteration)
Consonance
A figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation where a writer or speaker speaks directly to someone not present, dead, or an inanimate object.
Apostrophe
The angle from which a story is told.
Point of View
A story containing another story.
Frame Narrative
An event situation, action, or statement that reveals inconsistency in which reality and appearance are different.
Irony
Repetition of similar vowel or diphthong sounds in adjacent or closely connected non-rhyming words.
Assonance
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example: suit for business executive.
Metonymy
Time and place of the action of a story.
Setting
A way of criticizing an idea or person by exaggerating their troubling characteristics to create humor, but with the ultimate goal of producing reform.
Satire
A novel in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past, including attention to the manners, social conditions, and other details of the period depicted.
Historical Fiction
Employs two or more clauses which are related grammatically and conceptually, but in which the grammar and concepts are reverse, inverted parallelism.
Chiasmus
An ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary for emphasis.
Litotes
The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Dénouement
A story with two levels of meaning--one that is literal and one in which the characters, places, and events stand for something outside the story.
Allegory
The opposition of words and sentiments contained in the same sentence, often in parallel structure.
Antithesis