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A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
A person, an animal, or a thing that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is character?
A speaker or character who tells a story.
What is narrator?
The time and place of the action.
What is setting?
A conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
An internal or external struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The sequence of events in a literary work
What is plot?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
What is an allusion?
The part of the work that introduces the characters, setting, and situation.
What is exposition?
The feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage.
What is atmosphere (mood)?
The high point of interest or suspense.
What is climax?
Occurs after the climax.
What is falling action?
The end of the story, in which an insight or a change as a result of the conflict is shown.
What is resolution?
The turning point in a story; always a letdown; the point at which you learn that the story will not turn out the way you had expected.
What is anti-climax?
A plot device that introduces the central conflict.
What is inciting incident?
A plot device that leads to the climax.
What is rising action?
Another term for "falling action".
What is denouement?
A central message or insight revealed through a literary work.
What is theme?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?