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| Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. |
| Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. |
| Tone | Similar to mood, tone describes the author’s attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. |
| Diction | Related to style, diction refers to the writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. |
| Hyperbole | The deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or effect. |
| Irony | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. |
| Assonance | The successive use of different syllables with the same or similar vowel sounds in words with different consonants. |
| Alliteration | A rhetorical device that repeats the same sound or letter beginning several words in sequence. |
| Metaphor | The comparison of two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other. |
| Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. |
| Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. Connotations may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes. |
| Satire | A work that targets human vices, follies, social institutions or conventions for reform or ridicule. |
| Anaphora | A repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, or sentences. |
