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| tone | authors attitude, stated or implied, torward a subjecty or audience |
| irony | in general a contrast of what appears to be adn what really is |
| verbal irony | saying one thing and meaning another |
| irony of situation | outcome contrasts with what is and expected to happen |
| dramatic | the reader knows more than the characters do |
| satire | art of critizing a subject by ridiculing and evoking torward it an attitude of amuesment, contempt, or scorn |
| imagery | use of language to represent experiences of the senses - what can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled |
| Figurative Language | language expanded beyond its usual literal meaning to express emphasis or relationships between unlike things. |
| similie | when two basically unlike things are compared using like or as |
| metaphor | a implied comparison between things essentially unlike. It does not use the words like or as. |
| hyperbole | overstatement or extreme exatterationg used to create a special effect |
| rhythm | sense of movement resulting from the arrangement of stressed and unstressed sounds. |
| rhyme | repetition of word-ending sounds. When repeated at the ends of lines of poetry, these sounds form a pattern called a rhyme scheme |
| alliteration | repetition of initial and stressed sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of words. |
| onomatopoeia | use of words having sounds that suggest their meaning or which imitate the sound associated with them. |
| Assonance | repeition of vowel soudns followed by different consonant sounds in stressed words of syllables |
| Consonance | repetition of identical consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds |
| characterization | the author develops the qualities and personalities of persons either directly or thru their actions, speech, thoughts, and reactions of other |
| personification | a figure of speech in which human charcteristics are assigned to nonhuman things, or life is attributed to inanimate objects. |
