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| the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. |
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| A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. |
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| An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as, |
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| A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. |
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| Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. |
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| the orderly arrangement of words into sentences to express ideas, |
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| A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work. |
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| A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. |
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