Elements of Literature

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

a comparison made by applying attributes to a something when the attributes are not literally applicable

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

an exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

giving human qualities to a non-human being

• hyperbole

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

the author's attempt to create a mental picture in the mind of a reader

• metaphor

• imagery

• irony

• foreshadowing

A twist of fate in which the results of action are not the expected results

• foreshadowing

• irony

• metaphor

• plot

location in which the story occurs

• plot

• setting

• character

• illusion

events of the story

• hyperbole

• preface

• setting

• plot

central idea or message the author conveys

• theme

• plot

• irony

• metaphor

connotation

• the dictionary definition of a word

• the feeling a word gives you