Attitude revealed through the author's style of writing - connects to author's voice

The development/description of characters

Time, place, and situation of a story

Narrator tells the reader what a character looks like and acts like

Characters w/ few traits and usually just physical traits

Bad or evil character

Character with many traits

A character that completely changes by the end of the story

Good character/hero

Character that remains the same at the end of the story

Giving non-living/inanimate objects human character traits

Words, phrases, descriptors used to create a picture/image in the reader's mind

Event/Something said from early on in the story that hint to something that occurs later in the story

The way an author organizes a text to build meaning

Comparing two things not using "like" or "as"

Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

Lesson learned, main idea, central idea,

Quote at the beginning of a text to prove a point within the story