Vocabulary Quiz 2.14. 24

Metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

• Imagery

• Mood

• Personification

• Concrete words

An author’s main reason for writing

• Author’s purpose

• Paraphrase

• Imagery

• Connotation

Atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work

• Analogy

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Mood

Comparison of two things to illustrate common aspects.

• Paraphrase

• Analogy

• Imagery

• Chronology

Text structure in which the author uses numerical or chronological order to present items or events

• Connotation

• Context

• Central message

• Chronology

A writer’s targeted reader or readers

• Author’s purpose

• Paraphrase

• Point of View

• Audience

Perspective or vantage point from which a literary work is told or the way in which the author reveals characters, actions, and ideas.

• Plot

• Point of View

• Dialogue

• Reason

The logical support behind an argument.

• Reason

• Dialogue

• Connotation

• Metaphor

A thing, idea, or action referred to by a word or expression normally reserved for another thing, idea, or action to suggest a common quality shared between the two.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Figurative language

• Rhetorical devices

Techniques used by a writer to persuade an audience.

• Personification

• Author’s purpose

• Reason

• Rhetorical devices