Allegory
A device that convens meaning through symbols actions characters and setting. But also tells a story
Alliteration
The practicing of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound
Allusion
Reference to mythological, literary, or historical person, place, thing
Archetype
A universal symbol that may be a character, a theme, assemble, or even a setting
Forshadowing
In advanced hint of what is to come later in the story
Hyperbole
exaggeration
Imagery
Consists of words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons objects actions feelings and ideas descriptively by appealing to the sense
Irony
Situation reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true, often known as a plot twist
Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
mood
The atmosphere of a literary work that evokes a certain emotion or feeling from the audience
Paradox
A statement that appears contradictory or absurd but has a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth
Personification
A kind of metaphor that gives an adamant objects or abstract human ideas human characteristics
Simile
A comparison using "like" or "as
Symbolism
When an object representing another gives an entirely different meeting that is much deeper and more significant
Tone
The narrators attitude towards the subject