Makes a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways, but otherwise unalike.

A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.

Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes.

A story written to be performed by actors.

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally. It is used to state ideas in imaginative ways.

Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern or meter.

The use of words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses to describe how something looks, smells, sounds, tastes, or feels.

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.

A reason that explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech.

A story that can be either fiction or nonfiction.

A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

The perspective from which a story is told.

The story is told by a character who uses the personal pronoun "I"

The narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks.

The narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective.

A group of lines of poetry that is usually similar in length and pattern and separated by spaces.