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8 parts of Speech
10/3/18
Term | Definition |
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imagery | an author uses very specific nouns, verbs, and adjective, sensory details (sounds, taste, sight, colors, textures, smells, ) cinnamon, brown, dirt, Ford Mustang, scraping, skittering, twirling, metallic, warm... |
Connotation | this is feel of a word....it maybe positive or negative. Frightening, depressing, exited, The author purposefully chooses words with a feel to affect the reader and the plot elements of setting and chracer |
denotation | dictionary meaning |
literal | actual, real |
Figurative | creative, dramatic, poetic, not actual------- hyperbole. metaphor, simile, idiom, personification, oxymoron |
Ciliche | an overused phrase, often |