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| The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or the work itself | tone |
| Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning or change it into a different kind of word, from an adjective to an adverb, etc. | suffix |
| The author’s choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader | style |
| point of view presents the events of the story from outside of any single character’s perception, much like the omniscient point of view, but the reader must understand the action as it takes place and without any special insight into characters’ minds or motivations. | 3rd person |
| A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play. | stage directions |
| The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem… is often a created identity, and should not automatically be equated with the author. | speaker |
| Elements of literature that emphasize sound (e.g., assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia). | sound devices |
| To capture all of the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and as much as possible in the reader’s own words. | summarize |
| A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | symbolism |
| A topic of discussion or work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work. It may be stated or implied. Clues may be found in the prominent and/or reoccurring ideas in a work. | theme |
| A word that is similar in meaning to another word (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness). | synonym |
| A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage. | soliloquy |
| The author’s method of structuring a text; the way a text is structured from beginning to end. In literary works, the structure could include flashback and foreshadowing, for example. In nonfiction works, the structure could include sequence, question‐answer, cause‐effect, etc. | text structure |
| An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form. | personification |
| The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. | plot |
| The position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook from which the events are depicted (e.g., first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, etc). The perspective from which a speaker or author recounts a narrative or presents information. The author’s manner in revealing characters, events, and ideas; the vantage point from which a story is told. | point of view |
| A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah.) | simile |
| The time and place in which a story unfolds. | setting |
| Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning. | prefix |
| A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness. | satire |
