| A | B |
|---|
| author's purpose | inform, persuade, or entertain |
| author's choice of words | diction |
| language specific to a discipline | technical language |
| associations | connotations |
| word choice helps create this | tone |
| language not meant to be taken literally | figurative language |
| indirect comparison that uses like or as | simile |
| describes one thing as it it were another | metaphor |
| giving human traits to a nonhuman subject | personification |
| reuse of a key word, phrase, or idea | repetition |
| the use of similar grammatical structures to express related ideas | parallel structure |
| the expression of the same idea in different words to strengthen a point | restatement |
| inquires that have obvious answers and that are asked for effect | rhetorical questions |
