Plot
Advances Plot and builds suspense.
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
What is a simile?
“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.”
What is an onomatopoeia?
What is purpose?
The author's attitude toward their topic.
What is tone?
A struggle with a force outside one’s self.
What is external conflict?
"But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath."
What is personification?
"we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death I think is no parenthesis"
What is a metaphor?
The specific group of people the author intends to address with their writing.
What is audience?
This can be defined as the way a writer writes.
What is style?
A struggle with own soul, physical limitations, choices, etc.
What is internal conflict?
“If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are being released.”
What is an idiom?
"As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again."
What is hyperbole?
The strict dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The method by which an author develops traits.
What is characterization?
The turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
"The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others. No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long."
What is imagery?
"And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."
What is symbolism?
The personality of either an author or character.
What is voice?
The language used by the people of a specific group of people which involves spelling, sounds, grammar, and pronunciation distinguishing them from other people around them.
What is a dialect?
The final outcome.
What is resolution?
A Herculean effort.
"You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go, an’ I get no more jobs.”
Moist!
What is connotation?
Refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader.
What is the mood?