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| This refers to the clues the author provides to suggest what may happen later in the story. |
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| A figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared using the words like or as |
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| Words with similar meanings |
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| A device borrowed from serialized silent film in which an episode ends at a moment of great excitement. In a book it usually appears at the end of a chapter to encourage the reader to continue on in the book. |
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| The story events in the order that they occur |
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| The moment when the action comes to it's highest point of dramatic conflict |
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| Words with opposite meanings |
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| A story's location and the time in which it takes place |
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| The speaker means the opposite of what he or she actually says |
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| A device that is used more commonly in plays than in novels, refers to a situation in which one character is unaware of something that the other characters know |
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| A device in literature in which an author grants human qualities to nonhuman objects |
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| An object, a person, or an event that represents an idea or a set of ideas |
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