The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory response; create a picture with words.

insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

a gloomy state of mind, pensiveness.

One who incites strong or vehement expression of disapproval

 to indulge in conjectural thought

The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke

in the reader through a story.

Comparisons without the express use of “like” or “as."

a tract or area of wet, swampy ground

a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate

 the artful ridicule of folly or vice as a means of exposing or correcting it.

presenting favorable conditions

A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

to engage in thought or reflection; meditate

two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are compared with one another through the use of “like” or “as.”