| A | B |
|---|
| nuance | a shade of color, expression, meaning, or feeling |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words and imitate sounds |
| overstatement | an exaggeration used for effect |
| oxymoron | a two-word figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas |
| paradox | an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it |
| paraphrasing | replacing one's own words for another |
| parts of speech | grammatical function as |
| pathos | the rhetorical appeal to emotions |
| prose | all writing that is not poetry |
| pun | a play words based on different meanings of words that sound alike |
| round character | well - developed and lifelike |
| satire | a style of writing that uses humor-sometimes gentle and sometimes biting-to criticize people, ideas, or institutions in hopes of improving them |
| sequence, sequential | following an orderly pattern |
| setting | the time and a place ofa story |
| simile | the comparison of two things using like or as |
| static character | unchanging |
| syntax | sentence structure |
| synthesis | the bringing together many ideas |
| text feature | the graphics and visuals used to organize information |
| text structure | the organization of a text |
