1. A series of events selected by the author to present and bring about the solution of some conflict.
2. A comprarison of two things that are somewhat alike. The comparison is not directly stated.
3. The underlying meaning of a literary selection.
4. The time and place of the events in a story.
5. Words that help the reader experience the way things described in a story or a poem look, sound, smell, taste, or feel.
6. A comparison between two unlike things that is signaled by the word like or as.
7. Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of or within words
8. The author's choice of narrator, or speaker. The narrator may be an observer of the action, or the narrator may be a character in the story.
9. An interruption in the action of a story or play to show a scene that happened at an earlier time.
10. Two or more words that have the same last, or ending, sound, In poetry, the last words of lines often rhyme.
11. The atmosphere or feeling in a written work.
