Night Literary Terms

The author's attitude toward his/her subject.

• mood

• setting

• tone

• conflict

The time (date) and location of a narrative

• hyperbole

• setting

• situation

• theme

A struggle of opposing forces

• point of view

• theme

• personification

• conflict

The perspective from which a story is told

• mood

• point of view

• narration

• tone

The underlying message about life intended by the author

• foreshadowing

• theme

• hyperbole

• imagery

A comparison of two things using the words like or as

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• imagery

Descriptive words and phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human

• humanification

• personification

• hyperbole

• conflict

A comparison of unlike things that does not use like or as; it usually says one thing is another.

• simile

• imagery

• personification

• metaphor

When the unexpected occurs

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• narrative irony