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Literary terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| diction | author's word choice |
| denotation | a words's objective meaning |
| connotation | an association that a word calls to mind |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward a subject,character,or audience |
| mood | the feeling or the atmosphere created in the reader from the author's tone |
| synesthesia | descriptions off one kind of sensation in terms of another |
| imagery | language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: taste,sight,sound,touch,smell |
| repetition | the use of any element of language (sound,word,phrase,sentence) more than once for emphasis |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as |
| allusion | a reference to a well known person, place, event, Literary work, work of art |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds |
| free verse | poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem considered a unit |
| parallel structure | the repetition of a chosen grammatical order within a line of poetry, within a sentence in a prose, or within a series of lines or sentences to emphasize and to link related ideas or intensify the rhythm of language |
| symbol | an object (concrete) that represents an idea (abstract) |
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