Imagery Language that appeals to the five senses

Imagery • Language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.

Figurative Language • Use of the language that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level.

Metaphor • Comparison between two unlike things that is stated directly. There is no connecting word.

Simile • Figure of speech comparing two unlike things using a connecting word such as “like, as, than…”

Personification • A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is given human traits.

Who is telling the story – location of the narrator – in the story or out of the story

First Person Point of View The narrator is located inside of the story – is a character in the story

Third Person Omniscient The narrator is located outside of the story All – Knowing knows everything, including thoughts, actions, words, past, and even future, about most or all of the characters

Third Person Limited Omniscient The narrator is located outside of the story All – Knowing knows everything, including thoughts actions, words, past, and even future, about one of the characters – usually the main character

Third Person Objective (camera view) Narrator is located outside of the story This narrator knows only what he/she observes the characters doing or saying – does not know thoughts of the characters, does not know their past or their future – just as a camera can take a picture only of what it sees/observes