Understanding Literary Perspectives and Voices

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______ appeals to emotions in an argument.

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Pathos

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The person who writes the text, distinct from the narrator or speaker.

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Author

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The author's or narrator's attitude toward the subject.

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Tone

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A narrator who focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character.

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Third Person Limited

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A narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story.

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Third Person Omniscient

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The perspective from which a story is told.

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Point of View

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A literary device that gives human traits to non-human things.

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Personification

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The emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader.

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Mood

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The underlying message or main idea of a literary work.

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Theme

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A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile