Descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work, that appeals to one of the five senses.
What is imagery?
100
1. The writer’s choice of and use of words and phrases.
What is diction?
100
A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
What is a symbol?
100
The three elements to the art of persuasion.
What are appeals?
100
A statement that asserts a point, belief, or truth and requires supporting evidence.
What is the author's claim?
200
A direct comparison between unlike things using “like”or “as”
What is a simile?
200
The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
200
The writer’s attitudetoward his or her subject, characters, or audience. This can be formal or informal, personal or
pompous, friendly or distant.
What is tone?
200
The ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.
What is ethos?
200
The author's reason for or intent in writing/
What is the author's purpose?
300
A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics.
What is a metaphor?
300
The explicit or direct meaning of a word
without the ideas or emotions associated with
that word.
What is denotation?
300
An underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. It must always be stated in the form of a sentence
What is theme or central idea?
300
The appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.
What is logos?
300
A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated.
What is irony?
400
saying less than what is really meant, usually for ironic purposes
What is understatement?
400
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
What is objective?
400
A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. Also referred to as the atmosphere
What is mood?
400
The emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions.
What is pathos?
400
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
500
Outrageous exaggeration often for comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
500
Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
What is subjective?
500
A person who tells the story. In fiction, it is not the same as the writer.
What is narrator?
500
It is used to emphasize a point or draw the audience’s attention. It is not meant to be answered.
What is a rhetorical questions?
500
Stating the facts as they are; meaning exactly
what the words say.