Literary Elements and Devices

"Mother, if you keep prying into my private life, I may have to go on drugs."

"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young."

The person we root for is

Perhaps it's baleful atmosphere was due to the light from the single fluorescent ceiling strip

In the story "Charles", we were lead to believe Charles was the naughty one, but it was Lori.

The mechanism shuddered in a kind of exhaustion, groaning and screeching...

The problem that drives the story and affects the characters is

In "Picking Up", all the things John can't remember is an example of:

When Alex learned about the kind of person he wants to be by dancing with the unpopular girl...

The sequence of events in a narrative

When the police officers actually ATE the weapon they were searching for, that was...

She showed me the puppy & went all "Lion King", holding it up in the air!

She wondered if he like her back. He looked at her and smiled. She felt herself blush.

When I told my daughter to slow down, and then I got a speeding ticket...

Fiction. Nonfiction. Historical Fiction. Speculative Fiction.  

The coat that Flint's mother gives him represents her love, & his dream.

Perhaps it's baleful atmosphere was due to the light from the single fluorescent ceiling strip.

The people in the story. They're flat or round, dynamic or static...

The scene from Flint's childhood that showed his mom, his inventions, and his angry dad was

The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.

1st person, 3rd person Limited or Omniscient...

Ben's mind seemed far away. "No, I walked...partway...I've seen something scarier than that."