Comparing two things using the words like or as (as busy as a bee or school is like a prison)

Comparing two things without using like or as.Often metaphors use forms of to be such as is and are (the sky is a vast ocean or a book is a window to a new world)

Representing one person or object or idea by using something else (a dove could be a symbol of love and a snake might be a symbol of evil)

An allusion is a reference in a literary text to something else-to a real or fictitious person,place,event,or thing. Many texts contain allusions to the bible

An extended metaphor, where the entire story or poem has a secondary symbolic meaning.

In a fictional passage, when a character pauses to remember something that happened prior to the current action

A device in which the writer places clues in a story to prepare the for events that are going to happen later

The category a particular literary work belongs to

This is what the writer wants to convey about life through the literary work

A motif is a recurring element or device that expresses a literary work’s theme

The writers attitude towards the literary work

Tone and Mood are often confused , but tone is the author writes and mood is the feeling the reader takes away from the piece

The relationship of the narrator or story teller to the story

Is the time and place in which the events of a literary work occur

An Authors Purpose is the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic

The literal meaning of a word

The emotional meaning of word

A character who looks and behaves not like an individual but like a typical member of a particular group

This is when two opposite words or things are compared usually in a humorous way

The tone writer’s use when they are trying to make fun of what they are trying to write about

A spoken or written account of connected events

The attribution of a human like quality to something non human

Prose writing that is based on facts,real events and real people

An account of someone’s life written by some one else

An account of a persons life written by that person

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Visual description of figurative language

Poetry that does not rhyme or has a regular rhythm(meter)

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line

The occurrence of the same letter or soundat the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

The same words repeated over and over again

The sequence of events in a story

The people animals or beings in a work

The struggle between two or more characters

The exact words that are spoken between two characters(or more)

The choices that a writer makes about words and sentence structure that determine the mood

The basic part or model of a wide spread idea

Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or everyone is doing it

Attempts to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea

Persuading by making people feel as though they are one of the elite if they are using a particular product or thinking a certain way

A method of propaganda that is an attempt to turn people against and opponent or an idea by using unpleasant labels or descriptions for that person or idea

Tries to persuade the reader by using words that appeal to the reader’s emotions instead of to logic or reason

Trying to show that a person or product is good for “ordinary” people because a person is “just like you and understands you”