Rhetorical Terms
The repetition of the same initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables in any sequence of neighboring words.
What is Alliteration?
A form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion.
What is Description?
The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
What is Point of View?
Is giving human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things. This could be physical attributes, emotional attributes, or human action.
What is Personification?
A narrator is directly involved in the story and tells it from his or her point of view, frequently making use of the pronouns I, me, my and mine.
What is First-Person
Visually descriptive or figurative language.
What is Imagery?
Relies more on emotional appeals than on facts
What is Persuasion?
The conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled.
What is Resoulution?
Is a reference to a preexisting person, work, event, or well-known piece of pop culture.
What is Allusion?
The story is told through the perspective of the third person (he/she/they etc.).
What is Third-Person?
Comparing two things or instances in time often based on their structure and used to explain a complex idea in simpler terms.
What is Analogy?
Form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way.
What is Arguement?
Complications in conflict and situations
What is Rising Action?
Is a great exaggeration, often unrealistic, to add emphasis to a sentiment.
What is Hyperbole?
This style of narration doesn’t provide insight into the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
What is Third-Person Neutral
Repetition of consonant sounds two or more times in short succession within a sentence or phrase.
What is Consonance?
A type of academic paper in which the author presents some point of view or opinion on a particular topic, subject, event or situation.
What is Explanatory?
That point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. Also called turning point.
Compares two different things, using the words “like” or “as” to draw attention to the comparison.
What is Simile?
The narrator is not directly involved in the story which is told from the point of view of a character.
What is Third-Person Limited
When one or more words are omitted from a sentence.
What is Ellipsis?
Act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involvess close reading and special attention to figurative language.
What is Explication?
The central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action. Usually the hero or anti-hero.
What is Protagonist?
Compares two different things, similar to a simile.
What is Metaphor?
The narrator knows everything about the fictive world they are narrating.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?