Literary Devices and POV

The waterfall crashed onto the rocks sending a soft misty spray onto my face.

It was a sunny afternoon on the shore of the St. Croix River.

The runners readied at the starting line; they knew the winner would advance to state finals.

The use of details to appeal to the reader's five senses.

The narrator is a detached observer.

An internal or external struggle between forces in a story.

I knew when I walked into the silent apartment that my friends had already left for the movie.

Hints are provided by the writer indicating future events in the story.

Linda dreamed she broke her leg. "That'll never happen to me," she thought on the chair lift.

The campfire had burned down to embers so Joel gently added another log.

The man walked to the post office; he had no way of knowing his wife had picked up the mail.

A narrator who knows everything about all the characters in a story.

The place and time a story takes place.

A narrator who participates in the action of the story.