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| Author’s craft | intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, syntax, devices, and diction to create an effective written work; author’s craft may vary by genre |
| Characterization | the method in which an author constructs a character by explicitly stating aspects of his/her personality and appearance (direct characterization) or by revealing aspects of a character through their actions, thoughts, speech, other characters, etc. (indirect characterization) |
| Drama | literary works written in a stage play format which includes dialogue and stage directions that is intended to be performed |
| Editing | a stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics, grammar, and spelling |
| Figurative Language | language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices |
| Foreshadowing | a literary device used by an author to provide hints about future events and details that may occur later in the story |
| Graphic elements of poetry | capital letters, line length, and word position; also called the “shape” of a poem |
| Mood | the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage; mood can be expressed through imagery, word choice, setting, voice, and theme. For example, the mood evoked in Edgar Allan Poe’s work is gloomy and dark. |
| Plot | the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution |
| Setting | the time and place in which a narrative occurs. Elements of setting may include the physical, psychological, cultural, or historical background against which the story takes place. |
| Poetic form | a distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes such as a sonnet, blank verse, ballad, haiku, epic, lyric, etc. |
| Poetry | literary works focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often rhythmical and may have elements such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas |
| Theme | the central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to morals and/or values and speaks to the human experience/ condition |
| Tone | the author’s particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing |
| Voice | an author’s unique articulation or expression of language created by stylistic elements such as syntax, diction, and figurative language |
