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What is the author's attitude toward his subject often referred to in literature?
Tone
Connotation
The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.
What is a sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit. This type of literary element is developed throughout a piece of writing.
Extended Metaphor
What is a verbally abusive attack called?
Invective
Motif
What is the repetition or variations of an image or ida in a work used to develop theme or characters called?
What is a work that funcions on a symbolic level called?
Allegory
Deduction
What is the process of moving from a general rule to a specific exampe called?
What is an extreme exaggeration? Hint: The opposite of understatement.
Hyperbole
What is an unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen?
Irony
Onomatopoiea
A word that sounds like the sound they represent.
What is a reference to another literary work called?
Allusion
Diction
This rhetorical strategy helps author's create tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
What is the total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature?
Imagery
What appeal deals with the process of reasoning?
Logic
Oxymoron
An image of contradictory term
What is the presentation of two contrasting images called? Hint: The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
Antithesis
Didactic
A piece of writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach.
What is the process that moves from a given series of spectifics to generalizations called?
Induction
What is a direct comparison between dissimlar things called?
Metaphor
Pathos
The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience?
What is the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience called?
Attitude
Euphemism
What is a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something?
What is a conclusion one can draw from the presented details called?
Inference
What is a figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea called?
Metonymy
Personification
The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts.