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A comparison of two unlike objects using like or as.
What is Simile
What is Anaphora
Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is Personification
An expression that is unique to itself and cannot be defined from the meanings of the individual words.
What is Idiom
The use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is Irony
A short tale passed along by word of mouth throughout a given culture.
What is Folktale
A violation of the reader's expectations that occurs at the end of a story.
What is Surprise Ending
The individual telling the story to the individual.
What is Narrator
A plot development that violates the readers expectations.
What is Plot Twist
A theme that is not stated outright but must be discerned from the details that the author includes in the work.
What is Implicit Theme
A person, place, thing, or idea that means something in addition to itself.
A fictional story that was at one time held to be true within a certain cultural group.
What is Myth
Words that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is Concrete Language
The pattern of rhyme sounds in a poem or in a stanza of poetry.
A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.
A theme stated outright within a work of literature.
What is Explicit Theme
The audible means by which much folklore and mythology was transferred from person to person before the prevalent use of written language.
What is Oral Tradition
What is Point of View
Features or attributes that distinguish one character from another.
What is Character Trait
A type or category of literature.
What is Genre