flat character - personality, motivations, emotions unknown, round character - well developed character, dynamic character - one who changes from the beginning to the end of a story, static character - a character who does not change, protagonist - we root for this main character, antagonist - this character causes trouble for the main one, internal conflict - a difficult decision is this kind of conflict, external conflict - trouble with a bully is this kind of conflict, hyperbole - exaggeration, allusion - reference to commonly known events, people, stories, simile - She runs like a deer., symbolism - a diamond necklace represents wealth, foreshadowing - dark hint of things to come, alliteration - She sells seashells by the seashore., situational irony - what we expect is not what happens, dramatic irony - the reader knows something the characters don't, verbal irony - sarcasm, metaphor - She's an angel!, personification - the wind howled, idiom - "switch gears", onomatopoeia - "Swoosh!", repetition - same word/phrase used over and over, point of view - the narrator's perspective,

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