Figurative Language
A way of expressing your writing that does not use a word's or phrase's strict or realistic meaning.
Figurative Language
A way an author speaks
Tone
a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral
Comma
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Connotation
be a warning or indication of a future event
Forshadow
An over-exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
Hyperbole
Repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
a punctuation mark used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
Colon
raw materials of history — original documents and objects that were created at the time under study
Primary Source
Vivid, descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
Imagery
A direct comparison of two different things
Metaphor
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition, a topic.
Theme
a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma.
semi-colon
to prove or show to be just, right, legal, or reasonable.
Words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
a brief indirect reference (to a person, event, time period, literary work, etc.)
Allusion
Information/ context
Details
An independent clause is a clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence. An independent clause contains a subject and a predicate and makes sense by itself.
Independent Clause
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Assonance
Giving human characteristics/abilities to non human objects/ideas.
Personification
A seemingly self-contradicting statement that actually contains truth
Paradox
An argument that goes against your own
Counter argument
a group of words that contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought
Dependent Clause
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Stanza
Deliberate reuse of words and phrases for effect.
Repetition