Literature

Narrating a story using 'I'.

Writing a story using 'you'.

Writing a story with 'he', 'she' or 'it'.

Persuading by using ethics.

Persuading by using logic.

Persuading by using emotion.

Using the same sound at the beginning of words within a sentence.

Using an idea people easily understand to help describe a difficult idea.

Repeating the same words or phrases at the start of clauses.

Giving human characteristics and personalities to non-human things.

Repeating a clause but with the word order switched.

Repeating consonant and vowel sounds throughout a sentence.

A widely-known nickname that can be used instead of a real name or noun.

A replacement word or phrase used instead of a bad word.

Exaggerating to create an effect or feeling.

Using descriptive language to help readers imagine a scene.

Language or situation that has a conclusion different from its intention.

Using the characteristics of one object to describe another object.

Words that sound like sounds.

Descriptions created by using words with opposite meanings.

Sentences that have repeating structures to create balance.

Giving human qualities to non-human things.

Questions that are asked to make a point, rather than to get an answer.

Repeating sounds at the end of words.

Insincerely saying the opposite of what is meant in order to insult.

Using 'like' or 'as' to compare two things.

Discovering a true purpose that has been hidden inside.

The interaction between colonisers and native populations.

Groups making secret plans to overthrow others.

Unnecessarily wicked behaviour against another living thing.

A world that resembles heaven, but is actually a hellish society.

A belief in a higher power or destiny.

A child's duty to a parent.

An awareness that actions are pointless and can change nothing.

Pride that leads to failure.

A person being treated unfairly by the law or authorities.

Insecurity and anger that comes from feeling another person is taking something you love.

Going crazy as one loses one's mind.

Trying to do the right thing when given the choice between right and wrong.

An awareness that death will come to everyone.

The grief that comes after a loved one dies.

How life changed for those people and places that were colonised.

Hurting someone because they hurt you.

The people rising up against authority.

The way in which brothers and sisters act with each other.

The sense of detachment from society.

The African American experience.

What happens when science is pushed too far.

Writing airing women's voices.

Having to choose between two terrible options.

The voice of a person suffering injustice or persecution.

A person who secretly watches the life or actions of another.

A perfect society.

Conflict between countries or groups.

Books with darker themes, including elements of unease, haunting, and the supernatural.

English between the 11th and 16th century.

A movement from the early 20th century that played with style, structures, and identity.

Background on the English used between the 5th and 14th century.

The counter-culture literary movement with a jazz style that rose in the 1950s.

A golden age of English literature during the reign of Elizabeth I.

A less famous time in English literature, when political upheaval changed society.

A hugely influential time with poets whose names remain famous to this day.

The rise of the novel during the age of the British Empire.

A character who acts on behalf of the audience.

A character who represents the author's way of thinking.

When characters break the action in order to speak to the audience.

The voice and way of thinking that goes with a character.

Describing common items and situations through an unusual point of view.

Using letters and documents to tell a story.

Placing magic and the supernatural into an otherwise realistic setting.

Viewing an event from the point of view of different characters.

Writing that resembles the way people think, with little structure and sudden changes in ideas.

The narrator of the story cannot be trusted, so the reader is unsure what is true.

The most common types of character that turn up in stories.

The most common types of plots that appear in stories.

Different types of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.

The different types of literature that exist.

Devices that writers use to move the plot forward or backward.

The way that stories start, rise in action, reach a climatic point, and then end.