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Mood
A particular emotion or psychological state often created by positive or negative descriptive words.
Motif
The repeated use of an image, that reminds the audience about something important through communicating con stand reminders of it.
Narrative perspective
Who or what is the focus of the narrative.
Ominous
An indication something bad is going to happen.
Omission
To leave out important information when talking about something or someone,, in order to give a misleading impression of that thing or person.
Pathetic fallacy
The use of nature to reflect events and feelings, and actions of humans within them.
Pathos
Emotion feeling created in persuasive language.
Plosive
The sound made by saying a letter such as d or p, which are known to be plosive because of how they are pronounced.
Purpose
The reason a writer has for writing a text (the intention a writer has as how the audience responds to a text).
Retrospect
To think about something in the past, given with a different opinion that was originally formed.
Register
The use of tone, volume, pitch, inflection, fluency, vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure that give the correct degree of formally / informally appropriation for the specific context / audience. There’s a clear distinction between formal and informal.
Rhetorical question
A question that does not requiere an answer and invites the audience to think about it.
Satire
Criticising something / someone through humorously mocking and making fun of them; highlighting their failures.
Sociopath
Someone who behaves in an extremely antisocial way or has extremely antisocial attitudes.
Soliloquy
The thoughts of a character spoken by them alone, and which are not heard by another character (it provides insight from the audience into what a character is really thinking or feeling).
Suspense
A feeling of nervousness or excitement about what might happen.
Syntax
How words are arranged in sentences and phrases in order to convey their meaning.
Stream of consciousness
Character’’s direct thoughts are written or spoken in a way that reflects the continuos flow or such thoughts in the reader’s mind.
Synthesis
A powerful thinking skill that involves bringing together and combining different elements into one.
Third-person limited narration
The story is told from the (limited) point of view of one character.
Third-person objective narration
A narrator recounts facts about what characters say and do, but does not say anything about their thoughts/ feelings.
Third-person omniscient narration
The narrator sees and knows everything.
Tone
The way in which words are spoken using certain vocabulary, sentence structure, sentence type and so on.
Wit
The ability to express oneself in a clever and intelligent way, and often a way which might make other people laugh..
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