Characterization, The process through which authors create believable characters and reveal their personalities, Tone, The writer’s attitude or feeling toward his/her subject, Mood, The atmosphere or emotion the writer creates for the reader, Foreshadowing, A narrative device wherein an author drops subtle hints, suggestions, or warnings about events that will happen later in a story, Plot structure, The events that occur within a story; typically follows a predictable pattern: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, Inciting incident, An event, typically introduced at the end of the exposition, which sets up the main conflict of the text, Allusion, A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or other significance, Foil characters, A character that is used to enhance another character through contrast, Parallel characters, A minor character who is very similar to a main character, allowing the reader to compare and contrast them, Juxtaposition, When an author places two topics side-by-side and lets the reader compare and contrast them, Round characters, A well-developed character who demonstrates varied and sometimes contradictory traits, Flat characters, A character who reveals only a few personality traits in a story or novel, and whose traits do not change, Dynamic characters, A character that changes during the course of the story or novel; the change in outlook or character is permanent, Static characters, A character that remains primarily the same throughout a story or novel, Symbol, An object, action, or idea that represents a larger, more meaningful idea, Motif, Repeated literary devices that help readers recognize larger ideas or themes in the story, Archetypes, Stereotypical characters that are always recognizable to the reader because that type of person appears over and over again in literature

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