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| diction | An author's choice of words and phrases |
| denotation | the most specific or direct meaning of a word |
| imagery | use of sensory details to provide vividness to a work of literature |
| tone | an author's attitude toward his or her subject |
| figurative language | refers to expressions that are used rhetorically in a nonliteral way |
| simile | a direct comparison of two essentially unlike objects or ideas on the basis of some shared qualilty |
| metaphor | is a transformation of one thing or idea into another thing or idea |
| Symbol | is an object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in and of itself but also standsfor something larger than itself |
| theme | the underlying meaning of a work of literature |
| style | manner in which an author writes |
| diction | choice of words |
| tone | wide-ranging term that refers to a storyteller's attitude toward his or her subject matter and toward his or her subject matter and toward the audience |
| irony | is a literary tool that you used and witness every day |
| hyperbole | figure of speech in which overstatement or exaggeration is used for an emphasized effect. |
| personification | is a figure of speech in which an author gives an abstraction, idea, animal ro inanimate object human qualiites |
