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| Focus | to maintain a single point of view |
| figurative Lanuage | language that heightens the readers' senses. (hyperbole, metaphor, similes, and personification) |
| Genre | the classification of literature (drama, essay, mystery, science fiction) |
| Mood | the feeling or emotion a piece of literature evokes in the reader (happiness, sadness) |
| Narrative Text | a story that typically contains a clear progression of ideas-a beginning, middle, end; includes plot |
| Paraphrase | to restate the ideas of a text while keeping the same tone and ideas as the orginal |
| Persuasive Writing | the purpose is to convince the reader of an idea, to change the reader's mind |
| Point of View | the narrative perspective; the position or angle fromwhich a story is told |
| Style | the way in which something is expressed; the individuality of expression conveyed through the author's selection and arrangement of words, phrases, and images |
| Symbolism | something that represents something else; the use of an object, person or even to represent an abstract idea |
| Theme | the central or dominating idea conveyed by literary text |
| Tone | the writer's attitude toward subject (serious, sarcastic) |
