Actors show audiences how they feel by their expressions, gestures, and words. Score writers show that something bad is about to happen by playing low, dark sounding music. In literature, these elements are not available to writers. Writers use literary elements such as euphemisms, alliteration, foreshadowing, and personification. In the short story, "Edward Fane's Rosebud," the Nathaniel Hawthorne uses euphemisms, alliteration, foreshadowing, and personification to convey meaning.

An example of a euphemism appears when the author is telling how Nurse Toothaker has been tending to a sick and dying friend. It states, "All day long she has been sitting by a death-pillow, and quitted it for her home only when the spirit of her patient left the clay, and went homeward too." This is an example of euphemism because the author uses discreet language to make known that Nurse Toothaker's patient has died. Instead of flat out saying...