Figurative Language
What is language that uses words or expressions to make the reader feel different emotions or make the reader feel different about the writing
Theme
What is the moral or lesson of the story or what the reader learns about life from the text
Mood
What is the emotions the reader feels when reading a peice of writing. the overall feeling of the text
Tone
What is the attitude the author takes with a peice of writing or the feeling of someone or something in the story
Plot
What is the series of events that make up a story
Author's Purpose
What is the reason the author wrote the peice of text
Point Of View (POV)
What is the narrators position in relation to the story being told, or a person or thing's ideas or thoughts or visions on a certain thing
Imagery
What is a type of figurative language in which the author uses words that makes the setting of the text look vivid in your mind
Ethos
What is convincing the reader about the credibility or legitimatecy of the advertiser or persuader
Pathos
What is convincing the reader using emotional responses or setting
Logos
What is convincing the reader using reasons, facts, or logic
Allusion
What is a reference to another work of literature, person, event, or place (I went to Chick-Fil-A yesterday)
Alliteration
What is a series of words in which the beginning of those words are the same (Sally's Seashells)
Analogy
What is a comparison between things that are alike in some ways (Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get).
Anastrophe
What is inversion of the natural or usual word order (Into the water dove the boy).
Antithesis
What is the direct opposite, a sharp contrast (Go big, or go home).
Euphesim
What is an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant (Grandma passed away today).
Hyperbole
What is an overstatement or an exaggeration (I was shoveling through thousands of pounds of snow)
Irony
What is a contrast between expectation and reality (There was a sign that said "Thanks for driving safely" next to a crashed car).
Juxtaposition
What is placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts (Better late than never).
Oxymoron
What is a self contradictory combination of words (Pretty Ugly).
Paradox
What is self contradictory combination of words (I can't resist anything but temptation).
Parallelism
What is a group of phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other (I came, I saw, I conquered).
Repetition
What is anaphora (the repetition of words at the start of different phrases) and epistrophe (the repetition of words at the end of different phrases)
Understatement
What is the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is (It's just a little gash in my side).