Style
The implied attitude of the writer toward the subject or the audience
What is tone?
Use of extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery?
the intentional use of language to lessen or minimize the impact of an event or feeling
What is understatement?
The struggle or driving tension between characters in a story
What is conflict?
The arrangement of words & phrases to create well-formed sentences
What is syntax?
When a statement or situation means something different from, or even the opposite of, what is expected.
What is irony?
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
Appeals to the audience or the reader's ethics
What is ethos?
A technique used in which a writer plants clues or subtle indications about events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This expresses the author or the narrator's emotions, attitude, tone, and point of view
What is voice?
a reference to a well-known person, place, historical event, or literary work.
What is allusion?
when an object, a person, a situation, or an action has a literal meaning in a story but also suggests or represents other meanings.
What is symbolism?
Employs facts, data, statistics to prove a point
What is logos?
Sequence of events that unfolds during a story
What is plot?
Perspective from which the story is being told
What is point of view?
A story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral.
What is allegory?
a universal idea, lesson, or message explored by the author
What is a theme?
appeals to the audience or reader's emotions
What is pathos?
section of the plot that escalates the conflict and increases the stakes
what is rising action?
a form of verbal irony that mocks, ridicules, or expresses contempt
What is sarcasm?
A statement that is self-contradictory but still speaks the truth
What is paradox?
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
linguistic tools used to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions, logic, or credibility
What is rhetorical device?
the most important or exciting moment in a story
what is the climax?