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| Making something non-human do something a human does. |
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| A hint or clue about something that is going to happen later. |
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| A sequence of events in a story (the things that happen). |
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| A struggle between opposing forces. |
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| Comparing two unlike things by saying that one IS the other. |
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| Comparing two things by using "like" or "as" |
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| The main character in a story. |
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| A conversation between two characters. |
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| Someone who makes life more difficult for the protagonist (main character). |
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| The moment of greatest dramatic interest in a story. The part where things start to change. |
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| A word that resembles (sounds like) the sound it represents (buzz, bow-wow, woof, swish). |
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| Confusing similar sounding words or phrases to be funny (the student body shows too much student body). |
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| Confusing similar sounding words or phrases to be funny (the student body shows too much student body). |
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| A short phrase combining two terms that are normally contradictory (doesn't seem to make sense: pretty ugly, etc.) |
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| A word or phrase that is the same backwards and forwards. |
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| When something stands for something else (statue of liberty stands for freedom, etc.) |
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| A reference to something outside the story that is well-known (reference to the Bible, etc.) |
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| Repeating the initial (starting) consonant sound in neighboring words (the slippery serpent slid...) |
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| An interruption that takes a story back to an earlier point in time (jumps backwards in time). |
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| Something unexpected that is amusing or even contradictory (a firehouse on fire, a child from a smart family failing school) |
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