| A | B |
|---|
| Style | the language author uses |
| Converstational Style | informal style |
| Dialect | expressions that suggest different than normal speech |
| Ornate | highly formal style |
| Imagery | mental pictures that appeal to senses |
| Figurative language | words not used literarly |
| Personification | giving human attributes to non human |
| Metaphor | implied comparision between two inlike things |
| Simile | compares two different things using like or as |
| Onomatopoeia | word that sounds like their meaning |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonants |
| Consonance | repetition of consonants |
| Rhyme | repeition of stressed sound usually in last syllable |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| Rythm | thepattern of strong and weak beats |
| Puns | play on the multiple meaning of words |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Allusion | reference to famous people, works of literature, history |
| Symbol | represents something else |
| Diction | choice of words |
| Connotation | feelings associated with a word and its meaning |
| Denotation | the straight definition of a word |
| Tone | Author's attitude towards what they write |
| Syntax | sentence length, word order |
| Point of view | perspective of the narrator |
| first person | character telling story |
| third person | narrator telling story |
| omnicient | narrator knows everything |
| limited omnicient | narrators knows everything about one character |
| objective point of view | narrator tells us only what is said and happens-no feelings/thoughts |
