Semester 1 Literary Terms - English 11

the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or character

• tone

• author's purpose

• mood

the use of symbols to signify ideas and give them different meaning than the literal meaning

• mood

• understatement

• symbolism

the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• understatment

• mood

• juxtaposition

the reason the author decides to write about a specific topic

• aphorism

• mood

• author's purpose

a brief statement that expresses a general truth about life

• parallel structure

• aphorism

• urbane

a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity

• repetition

• aphorism

• buff

deliberately representing something as much less important than it really is

• tone

• mood

• understatement

the use of symbols to signify ideas and give them different meaning than the literal meaning

• mood

• symbolism

• simile

the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or of equal importance

• parallel structure

• point of view

• rhetoric

two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast

• simile

• tenet

• juxtaposition