Wheel entries:

• phrases that create an image in the reader’s mind
• description through comparison
• an explicit comparison using like or as
• an implicit comparison without like or as
• a metaphor in which human characteristics are assigned to something non-human
• an exaggeration not meant to be taken literally
• a universal idea
• a pattern of repeated images (3 or more)
• the feeling— or atmosphere— of a piece of writing
• the attitude of a piece of writing
• what an author shows or tells us about a character
• what an author explicitly tells us about a character
• what an author implicitly shows us about a character
• the sequence of events in a story
• what the protagonist wants but must struggle to get
• the character that struggles against the conflict
• the person or thing that gets in the way of what the protagonist wants
• the state of things, full of imbalance and potential conflict, as the story begins
• an event that changes the ground situation and results in the protagonist wanting something specific
• a major reversal (from good to bad or bad to good) in terms of what the protagonist wants
• the new state of things after the conflict is gone
• the perspective of the narrator