Figurative Language
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
Personification
The choice and use of words in writing or speech.
Diction
To derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.
Inferring
Time and place of the story.
Setting
A type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline. Their environment may change, but they retain the same personality and outlook as they had at the beginning of the story.
Static Character
Brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
Allusion
The repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence.
Parallelism
The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.
Theme
Interrupts the "present" line of the story to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.
Flashback
Where the narrator knows everything about the events, characters, and world in the story. This narrator not only has a "God's Eye View" of the plot, they can also tell the narrative from multiple character perspectives.
3rd Point of view (Omniscient)
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
Simile
To describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.
Descriptive Writing
To select a passage for quoting.
Excerpt
The stylistic means by which an author conveys his/her attitude(s) in a work of literature.
Tone
Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Supernatural.
Conflict
A situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result.
Irony
Writing that exposes facts. In other words, it's writing that explains and educates its readers.
Where the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist, referring to them by name or using a third person pronoun such as they/she/he. The narrator can only see inside the mind of the protagonist.
3rd Point of View (Limited)
Uses the pronouns "I," "me," "we," and "us," in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective.
First Person
Explains two things without using like or as.
Metaphor
The idea that things represent other things.
Symbolism
The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words.
Alliteration
The sequence of events that shape a broader narrative, with every event causing or affecting each other.
Plot
A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
Genre
Used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.
Foreshadow