Writer's Craft

The birds in the tree outside my window sang sweetly.

• simile

• alliteration

• repetition

• thoughtshot

I wish I could close my eyes, click my heels together three times, and awaken on a tropical island.

• onomatopoeia

• flashback

• metaphor

• allusion

"What you want?"

"I can still tend the rabbits, George?"

"Sure. You ain't done nothing wrong."

• dialogue

• suspense

• allusion

• foreshadowing

She remembered that moment like it happened yesterday, a lifetime ago when she didn't have a care in the world.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• imagery

• personification

A hint about something that will happen later in a story.

• imagery

• tense

• foreshadowing

• heartbeat

"But soft! What light through yonder breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" --from Romeo and Juliet

• allusion

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

The bees buzzed throughout the garden in the afternoon sunshine.

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

The emotional core or pulse of a story.

• heartbeat

• thoughtshot

• theme

• genre

"His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse." --from Of Mice and Men

(check all that apply)

• simile

• imagery

• snapshot

• alliteration

The wind whispered secrets through the trees, a mournful song carried on the breeze. (check all that apply)

• alliteration

• rhyme

• metaphor

• personification