| Term | Definition |
|---|
| diction | word choice |
| syntax | style of phrasing |
| tone | author's attitude toward what is written |
| nonfiction | PROSE about real people, places, and events |
| 1st person subjective | narrated as if events just happened by a major/minor character |
| 1st person detached | narrated as looking upon past events from a matured perspective and has learned, by a major character. |
| 1st person observer | narrated by a minor character who is a confidant(e) of the protagonist, knows only what is seen and spoken |
| 3rd person omniscient | knows thoughts, actions, and emotions of characters. |
| 3rd person objective | only reports on what is said and done |
| allusion | reference to something the author expects the earnest reader to recognize |
| realism | life as it is without distortion or idealization |
| romanticism | life as we wish it |
| vernacular | everyday language of the average person in a given culture |
| dialect | regional language: 1) syntax 2) colloquialisms/idiomatic language 3) diction 4)pronunciation |
| satire | mocking/ridiculing individuals, groups, and institutions |
| verbal irony | wordplay |
| situation irony | opposite of what is expected occurs |
| dramatic irony | audience knows more than the characters |
| heroic couplet | iambic pentameter couplet |
| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| feet | the number of units of any meter/line of poetry |
| denotation | literal/dictionary meaning |
| connotation | associated or suggested meanings of words |
Combine with other sets
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