Imagery is language that makes an appeal to the senses. It can apply to any of the five senses or a combination of multiple senses.

Rhetorical devices are words that serve a special function in the text. Authors include them in order to convey a meaning to the reader.

You will also want to keep an author's tone in mind as you read.

What would fiction be without dialogue?

All prose is written in one of three points of view: first-person narration, third-person limited narration, and third-person omniscient narration.

The narrator, or the person telling the story, is one of the most important aspects of a text. A narrator can be a character in the story, or he or she might not appear in the story at all. In addition, a text can have multiple narrators, providing the reader with a variety of viewpoints on the text.

We can define the "setting" of a story as the geographical location or locations in which the events of the narrative takes place, as well as the time in which those events are set.

Many stories actually have smaller climaxes before the main one.

inciting incident, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and dénouement.

A plot is a storyline. We can define plot as the main events of a book, short story, play, poem, etc. and the way those events connect to one another. Conflicts act as the driving forces behind a plot.

Finally, any character in a story can be an archetype. We can define archetype as an original model for a type of character, but that doesn't fully explain the term.

Remember that an antagonist doesn't have to be a person – it can be a nation, a group, or even a set of ideas.