Definitions 1
A comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as"
metaphor
Putting two words close to one another that end with similar or even identical sounds.
rhyme
The cool water tasted clean and crisp as I gulped it loudly, clutching the worn green canteen in my sweating palms.
imagery
All across the city, someone had been downloading Grammarly onto student computers. One man had to do something about it...
conflict
This generally consists of establishing the central conflict, rising action, a kind of climax, and falling action/resolution.
plot
A problem between characters or a struggle within a character.
conflict
A life lesson or small piece of wisdom or advice that the story intends to convey.
moral
The first section of "Success," by Emily Dickinson is:
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
stanza
The whole story changes when we realize that the character whom we thought had been helping the protagonist had actually been working against the protagonist all along.
turning point
Writing this gives characters a chance to "speak in their own voices," in their own words.
dialogue
Words and phrases that provide information about what someone may see, hear, smell, touch, or taste.
imagery
The way that a text is organized, composed, and set out on the page.
structure
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is the one who tells the story in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
narrator
"Who goes there?" said the guard.
"Who am I? Dude, who are you?" responded the figure in the shadows.
"I'm the dude who guards this part of the palace, now tell me your name before you meet my sword," demanded the guard.
"Easy, easy, it's me, Hamlet," the figure said as he emerged from the shadows and into the torchlight.
"Sir," the guard said, "I have to tell you...I think I saw a ghost last night."
dialogue
You have to understand not only how the author wants you to feel about the topic, you also have to understand how the author himself or herself really feels about the topic.
tone
A comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as"
simile
One of the living (or at least thinking) things in a story that does actions or is acted upon to move the narration forward.
character
Jo March is the protagonist in the novel Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.
character
The sun crawled across the sky on that hot summer day.
personification
You have to know what it is that the author probably wants you to walk away thinking or feeling after reading the text, the "takeaway" (so to speak).
theme
A particular attitude about something
point of view
This is the main way that a poem is subdivided into smaller sections, and in modern poetry it is usually graphically signaled by skipping a line.
stanza
A red rose is often used to represent love.
symbol
This story takes place in New York City in the early 2020s during the time of covid lockdowns.
setting
This literary device can be a contrast between what the audience knows and what the character knows, a contrast between two possible meanings of an utterance, or a contrast between what one might expect and what actually is the case.
irony