| Literary Element | Definition | Chapter and Example from text |
| climax | The highest and most intense part of the story | 12:The police come to michael’s house and they try to investigate if the bullets from mr ward was the same bullet of michaels gun |
| setting | Where it is located | 1: In Briarwood |
| tone/mood | State of feeling in a particular time | Jenna: her father dies |
| point of view | An opinion of that character/person | Jenna and Michael: Both have point of views in the story |
| theme | The main topic about what is going on | : How a girl drowns because of a stone that was stuck in her throat instead of swallowing it down |
| cause/effect | A relationship between action or events then the result of it | Michael kills Jenna’s father and everything goes downhill. |
| flashback | Remembering something from the past | In the chapters there are some flashbacks from one or two days ago. |
| conflict | The problem in the story | Michael kills Jenna’s father and by accident and he didn’t want to tell anybody about it |
| symbolism | A meaning of the character | 1: A gun |
| irony | Words that communicate a meaning that is the opposite of the actual meaning | 25: when michael sees jenna at the tree sleeping |