13307518744 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 0 | |
13307525130 | Attitude | The disposition toward or opinion of a subject by a speaker, author, or character. | 1 | |
13307542100 | Details | the individual items or parts that make up a larger picture or story. | 2 | |
13307549810 | Devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry, such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc. | 3 | |
13307572816 | Diction | word choice | 4 | |
13307584789 | Figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, and irony. | 5 | |
13307616673 | Imagery | the images created by a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. | 6 | |
13307632500 | Irony | a figure of speech in which the intended meaning and the actual meaning different, characteristically using praise to indicate blame or using blame to indicate praise; | 7 | |
13307668247 | Metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as", "like", or "than." | 8 | |
13307696227 | Narrative techniques | the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. | 9 | |
13307711720 | Omniscient point of view | vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses. | 10 | |
13307723529 | Point of view | any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told. | 11 | |
13307748122 | Resources of language | a general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use. | 12 | |
13307773491 | Rhetorical techniques | The devices used in effective or persuasive language. | 13 | |
13307796284 | Satire | writing that uses ridicule to arouse a reader's disapproval of the subject. | 14 | |
13307807120 | Setting | the background of a story; the physical location of a play or story. | 15 | |
13307815110 | Simile | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like", "as", or "than". | 16 | |
13307832651 | Strategy (or rhetorical stragegy) | the management of language for a specific effect. | 17 | |
13307848134 | Structure | the arrangement of materials within a work | 18 | |
13307854498 | Style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. | 19 | |
13307864688 | Symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and also a sign of something else. | 20 | |
13307883888 | Syntax | the structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence | 21 | |
13307889464 | Theme | the main thought expressed by a work | 22 | |
13307895681 | Tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. | 23 |
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