Unit 1 Vocabulary

How something is used

• Plot

• Tone

• Function

• Context

Description that appeals to the sense (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• Context

• Allegory

• Denotation

• Imagery

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• Tone

• Mood

• Epic

• Archetype

The opposite of the original statement

• Negation

• Pacing

• Conflict

• Concise

A slight or subtle degree of difference

• Plot

• Setting

• Diction

• Nuance

The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented

• Pacing

• Function

• Coherence

• Epic

Sequence of events in a story

• Imagery

• Mood

• Conflict

• Plot

The perspective from which a story is told

• Diction

• Point of View

• Connotation

• Nuance

The time and place of a story

• Pacing

• Tone

• Setting

• Allegory

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

• Context

• Mood

• Concise

• Tone