What's that word?
A word class used to modify nouns
What are adjectives?
Two things compared using 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
The appeal to a reader or listener's sense of logic
What is logos?
The pronunciation of a language
What is an accent?
When the pronoun 'I' is used for narration.
What is a first person perspective?
A word class used to modify adjectives and verbs
What are Adverbs?
The reference in literature to an already existing text, event, person, or place.
What is allusion?
Language that supports an ideological position, either explicitly or implicitly.
What is bias?
The omission of part of a language structure
What is ellipsis?
When the pronoun 'you' is used for narration.
What is the second person?
A word or group of words that can substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
What are pronouns?
Repetition of a word or phrase over a succession of phrases, lines, or sentences.
What is anaphora?
A word or phrase that makes something sound better than it actually is
What is a euphemism?
The special technical language of any trade, profession, branch, or scholarship
What is Jargon?
The 'certainty' of a text and the authority it demonstrates
What is modality?
A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object
What are prepositions?
A literary or stylistic device in which one states something that is in discordance with what is expected.
What is irony?
A propaganda technique that suggests one should do something because everyone else is doing it
What is the bandwaggon effect?
A unique and distinguishable combination of vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax
What is a dialect?
When a writer shows us, but doesn't tell us, about a character.
What is indirect characterization?
A group of words that functions like a noun, acting as the object or subject of a sentence.
What are noun phrases?
The act of referring to a concept not by its name, but by something intimately associated with it.
What is metonymy?
Language that appeals to emotions
Sensationalism
The way in which we all speak an individual and unique variety of a language
What is idiolect?
The voice of a third-person narrator takes on the style and ‘voice’ of one of the characters within the story or novel
What is free indirect speech?