Literary Elements

When the audience/reader knows something that a character does not

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

An appeal to the senses

• Simile

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Theme

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

The lesson the author is trying to convey to the reader

• Imagery

• Theme

• Tone

• Main Idea

The comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Simile

The main character of a story

• Protagonist

• Static character

• Dramatic Character

• Antagonist

When the author gives clues or hints about what is going to happen in the story

• Conflict

• Foreshadowing

• Falling Action

• Flashback

An extreme exaggeration

• Tone

• Oxymoron

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

The way the story is told (1st Person, 3rd Person, etc)

• Perspective

• Omniscient

• Limited

• Narrator

The reason for writing; to persuade, inform or entertain

• Exposition

• Author's Purpose

• Rising Action

• Theme