simile, A comparison of two things to make a vivid description, using like or as. Examples:  He ran as fast as a leopard. The ring glittered like a star. , metaphor, A comparison of two things that seem unalike, usually by saying one thing is the other. The purpose is to create a vivid and symbolic comparison. Examples: My life is a box of cookies. You are a peach.  , personification, Assigning human qualities to an animal, thing, or an abstract concept, usually for dramatic effect. Examples: My phone screeched at me. The spider waited patiently for the grasshopper to touch the web.  , flashback, A device that interrupts the chronology of a story and describes an event in the past., foreshadowing, giving a hint, sign, or a clue of a detail that could come later in a story, conflict, a struggle between two characters or forces in a story that is the central point, imagery, A device when an author uses descriptive language, especially related to our five senses ( sight, smell, feel, hearing, and taste). Examples: The warm doughnut filled the air with the smell of vanilla. My toes sank into the soft sand on the beach. , idiom, a phrase that cannot be understood on a literal level. Examples: It's raining cats and dogs. I am feeling under the weather. , theme, The universal message, lesson, or underlying idea that an author is trying to communicate in a text. , literal meaning, the primary or exact definition of a word, figurative meaning, the non literal, imaginative, or symbolic meaning of a word, often seen in a metaphor, simile or idiom, infer, to make a guess or figure something out based on clues and evidence.

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