RECALL FORMALIST

The analysis and judgment of the merits and faults of a literary or artistic work.

• Review

• Criticism

• Informative

• Persuasive

A critical approach in which the text under discussion is considered primarily as a structure of words.

• Marxist

• Moralist

• Formalist

• Feminist

What figurative language was used? “I let out a silent scream as the cat walked through the door carrying a mouse.”

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

She sells seashells on the seashore.

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light." — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole