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| Inferences | making judgments or drawing conclusions based on what an author has implied. |
| Initiating event | is the incident that introduces the central conflict in a story; it may have occurred before the story opens |
| Tone | is used to express a writer’s attitude toward the subject. |
| Voice | shows an author’s personality, awareness of audience, and passion for his or her subject. It adds liveliness and energy to writing. Voice is the imprint of the writer — the capacity to elicit a response from the reader. |
| Dynamic | changing during the course of and as a result of the story |
| Static | remaining the same during the course of the story |
| Mood | to the emotional atmosphere produced by an author’s use of language. |
| Point of view | is the way an author reveals events and ideas in a story. With an omniscient or “all knowing” point of view, a narrator sees all, hears all, and knows all. By contrast, a limited point of view depicts only what one character or narrator sees, hears, and feels. The point of view may be first person, narrated by someone outside the story or a character within the story. The point of view may also be third person, limited or omniscient, depending on what is known of the story. |
| Symbol | is anything that represents something else, often by indirect association or by the convention of an emblem, token, or word. In both prose and poetry, concrete objects used as symbols stand for larger ideas or feelings. The general characteristic of poetry, i.e., its suggestiveness, makes possible the expression of complex feelings and experiences in a few words. Symbolism, like metaphor, imagery, and allusion, is a powerful instrument for the expression of large worlds of meaning in a few words. |
| Foreshadowing | the giving of clues to hint at coming events in a story |
| Irony | the implication, through plot or character, that the actual situation is quite different from that presented |
| Flashback | a return to an earlier time in the course of a narrative to introduce prior information |
| Symbolism | the use of concrete and recognizable things to represent ideas |
