Author's Craft
The author’s attitude toward a subject or audience, shown through word choice and style
What is tone?
scene that interrupts the main story to show an event that happened earlier
What is a flashback?
descriptive language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)
What is imagery?
a grouped set of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose
What is a stanza?
a short section or part of a written work
What is a passage?
the central message, lesson, or idea in a story
What is theme?
the sequence of events that make up a story
What is plot?
giving human qualities or actions to animals, objects, or ideas
What is personification?
a comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
a brief, indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of literature
What is an allusion?
the literal, dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
a struggle that takes place within a character’s mind or emotions
What is internal conflict?
the way a character or narrator views and understands events
What is perspective?
a direct comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as”
What is a metaphor?
a character who is not fully developed by an author; character who has only one outstanding trait or feature, or at the most a few distinguishing marks
What is a flat character?
to figure something out using clues from the text and your own knowledge
What is infer?
the position from which a story is told
What is point of view?
connections where one event (cause) makes another event happen (effect)
What are cause and effect relationships?
sound device; repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
surprising, amusing, or interesting contrast between reality and expectation.
What is irony?
the feelings or associations a word suggests beyond its literal meaning
What is connotation?
the person or voice telling the story
What is narrator?
writing or speech not meant to be taken literally figure of speech
What is figurative language?
a pair of rhyming lines written
What is a couplet?
the introductory material which sets the story up
What is exposition?