Unit #2 Vocabulary

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When a writer appeals to a reader's senses by using descriptive and figurative language

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Imagery

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things by stating one is the other.

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A figure of speech that compares two things using the words "like" or "as"

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Simile

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A literary device that gives human characteristics, actions, or emotions to non-human things, ideas, or animals

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Personification

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The feeling or atmosphere that the author creates for the reader

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Mood

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Description

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To describe a person, place, or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind.

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Descriptions that include touch, sight, taste, sound, and smell

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Sensory details

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Tone

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the attitude of the author towards a subject or audience, and how that attitude is conveyed to the reader