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Is the struggle against some outside enemy or some internal problem. A state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. A conflict can be internal (within oneself) or external (between two or more individuals). |
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| Vantage point from which a writer tells a story. In broad terms there are three possible points of view: omniscient, first-person, and third-person |
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| The time and place of a story or play |
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| Central idea of a work of literature |
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| Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
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| Figure of speech that makes a comparison between to unlike things, using a word such as "like, as, resembles, or than". |
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| A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word "like, as, resembles, or than" |
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| Kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
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| Language that appeals to the senses |
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| The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot |
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| Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality-between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true. |
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| Type of writing that ridicules something-a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social institution-in order to reveal a weakness |
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| Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |
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| Scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot of flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time. |
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