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The central idea of a story, usually implied rather than stated. It is the author's idea about life.
"Happiness is not artificial" (The Happiness Machine)

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Language used in such a way as to force words out the literal meanings and, by emphasizing their connotations, to bring new insight and feeling to the subject desired.
"Expecting... a hammer or wrench to leap up crying..." (The Happiness Machine)

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The representation through language of sense experience. The image often suggests a mental picture, sound smell or taste.
"He lay smelling the wind that blew from the hidden machine below, rich with the odor of the roasted chestnuts that sold in the autumn streets of a Paris he has never known" (Happiness by Guy de Maupassant)

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This is what causes a character to do what he does and it determines their actions.
"How have we used machines so far - to make people cry? ... I'll do it!" (The Happiness Machine)

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When circumstances turn out differently than what was expected.
"Not me! Not me! ... He's in the car!" (Never Stop on the Motor Way)

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The time and place in which a story takes place or the social environment.
"Five years ago, I took a trip to Corsica" (Happiness by Guy de Maupassant)

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Gives a hint of what is to happen later in the story.
"Not even the inventor knew the amazing things it could do"
(The Happiness Machine)

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The perspective from which the story is told.
"She spoke the French of France. I was surprised." (Happiness by Guy de Maupassant

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Reference to a familiar figure place or event in history.
"Perhaps those who set out, like Columbus." (Happiness by Guy de Maupassant)

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Prevailing feeling created in the story. Created through dialogue and imagery.
"I suddenly saw the terrible misery of life, the isolation of everyone, the nothingness of everything, and the black solitude of the heart, deluding itself with dreams until death." (Happiness by Guy de Maupassant)

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The fictional persons who carry out the action of a story.
"Diana groaned as she came to a halt at yet another red light." (Never Stop on the Motorway)

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The story line or organization of incidents in a story. This includes rising and falling action, conflict and resolution, climax etc.
"She slowed down, he slowed down... Time had come for her to speed away from him..." (Never Stop on the Motorway

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Characters, object etc. can all be symbolic in that they represent something beyond themselves.
"But it had seemed as intimate and shimmering a thing as a boy's soul escaping his room." (The Happiness Machine)

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Plot device which shifts the story from the present to the past to illustrate an important point.
"Diana began to tremble as she remembered their warning to all women drivers: "Never stop on the motorway""
(Never Stop on the Motorway)

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This is when a character says the opposite of what he/she actually means.
"It's just me washing and me cooking  and socks to be darned and weeds to be dug. Who's complaining?" (The Happiness Machine)

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The feeling of anxiety experienced by the reader about the outcome of an event.
"A mile to go... A hundred yards to go... Thirty yards to go..."
(Never Stop on the Motorway)