Literary devices

• Setting:


  the time and place of the story's action.
• Conflict:


  a struggle between two opposing forces.
• Internal Conflict:


  involves a character in conflict and struggles with him or herself.
• External Conflict:


  a character struggles against an outside force, such as another character, society as a whole, or something in nature.
• Symbolism:


  Something that has a meaning in itself and stands for something larger than it does, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.
• Flashback:


  a scene that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an important event from an earlier time
• Foreshadowing:


  the use of clues or hints to suggest what will happen later in the plot.
• Direct Characterization:


  when the writer tells us directly what a character is like.
• Indirect Characterization:


  When the writer shows, rather than tells the reader what is character is like by speech, thoughts, actions, looks, or effects on other character.
• Theme:


  central message or insight of life in the story.
• Stereotype:


  generalized belief about something particular.
• Mood:


  story's atmosphere or the feeling if brings to the reader's mind.
• Tone:


  the writer's attitude toward audience and subject; it can be described as formal, informal, serious, ironic etc.