Intro (class words)

language that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison.

• Figurative Language

• Author's purpose

• Imagery

• Tone

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

• Annotation

• Synthesize

• Tone

• Idiom

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Imagery

the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.

• Author's purpose

• Author's style

• Author's figurative language

• Author's inference

The author's reason for or intent in writing

• Annotation

• Evidence

• Simile

• Author's purpose

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

• Inference

• Connotation

• Annotation

• Evidence

Comparison using like or as.

• Metaphor

• SImlie

• Idiom

• Connotation

Comparison of two unlike things

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Inference

• Tone

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

• Simile

• Conclusion

• Metaphor

• Idiom

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

• Connotation

• Dennotation

• Invocation

• Annotation