Alliteration

Simile

comparing unlike things using "like or as"

Metaphor

Personification

giving human qualities to animals or objects

Flashback

action that stops to show an earlier event

Foreshadowing

use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature

Characterization

how a writer developes a character

this includes: appearance, actions, thoughts, character speech, reactions of others

Conflict

name 3

struggle in fiction

Man vs. Man

Man vs. Nature

Man vs. Self

Irony

something happens or is said that is opposite of what is expected

Point of View

1st person- narrator  "I, me"

3rd person- no narrator

Plot

what happens in a story

Setting

where or when story takes place

Theme

main idea-what author wants you to understand

Tone

attitude or feeling from author

Stanza

a paragraph of poetry

Onomatopoeia

a word that imitates its sound

(splash)

Protagonist

main character of story

Antagonist

the character that keeps the main character from getting what he/she wants (villian)

The ocean's tide spoke softly of a millennia of time.

Personification

He is a bull in a china shop.

Metaphor

They call it Ship Trap Island. Sailors have a curious dread of the place.

Setting

What is the shape of the gallows on the black cat's chest an example of?

Foreshadowing

And the silken sad uncertain, rustling of each purple curtain...

Alliteration

At the end of the "Black Cat", the message is....EVIL comes from Demon Alcohol.

Theme

Charlie Anderson, the father in Shenandoah. Also Batman, or Superman. 

Protagonist

The Joker in Batman and the Wiley Coyote.

Antagonist

Boom!  Splash!  or Zing!

Onomatopoeia

The old car took one look at the mountain, then it wheezed, coughed, and died.

Personification

She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.

Alliteration

Your sheets will smell fresh as a daisy.

Simile