Short Story Literary Elements

author's bias

• heavily opinionated

• a phrase in which the meaning cannot be taken literally

• the scene jumps to the future

• a statement that contradicts itself

motif

• an object, image, or idea that reappears over and over in the text

• stereotypical character

• the author's reason for writing

• the scene jumps to the future

paradox

• a statement that contradicts itself

• using clues to come to a conclusion

• heavily opinionated

• extreme exaggeration

author's purpose

• the author's reason for writing

• an object, image, or idea that reappears over and over in the text

• the scene jumps to the future

• a phrase in which the meaning cannot be taken literally

idiom

• a phrase in which the meaning cannot be taken literally

• a statement that contradicts itself

• the scene jumps to the future

• using clues to come to a conclusion

flash-forward

• the scene jumps to the future

• the author's reason for writing

• an object, image, or idea that reappears over and over in the text

• a phrase in which the meaning cannot be taken literally

archetype

• stereotypical character

• a reference to a historical event or other literary work

• heavily opinionated

• an object, image, or idea that reappears over and over in the text

inference

• using clues to come to a conclusion

• heavily opinionated

• extreme exaggeration

• the scene jumps to the future

hyperbole

• extreme exaggeration

• using clues to come to a conclusion

• the author's reason for writing

• heavily opinionated

allusion

• a reference to a historical event or other literary work

• an object, image, or idea that reappears over and over in the text

• extreme exaggeration

• stereotypical character