EOC Terms Section 4

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Paraphrase

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Rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.

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Parody

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A literary work that closely imitates the style of another work for humorous purposes, often exaggerating elements of the original work to create a comic effect.

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Pathos

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Quality in a work of literature that appeals to high emotion, most commonly sorrow, pity, or compassion.

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Parts of an Essay

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Introduction, coherent thesis, support such as definitions, descriptions, conclusion.

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Persona

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The person created by the author to tell a story, often a personality different from the author's real one.

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an animal, a thing, a force of nature, or an idea is described as if it were human or is given human characteristics.

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Perspective

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Narrator’s outlook or view on the story’s events, characters, and the world.

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Plagiarism

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Using a writer’s words without crediting the source.

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Plot

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Series of related events that make up a story; what happens in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.

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Poetry

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Type of literature that compresses meaning into fewer words and often uses meter, rhyme, and imagery.