Authorial Choices

Round character

Character that has multiple characteristics

Flat character

Character that has one characteristic

Dynamic character

Character that changes throughout the plot

Static Character

Character that doesn’t change throughout the plot

Diction

Authors choice of words

Denotation

What a word literally means

Connotation

Feelings/ emotions words produce/evoke

Syntax

Arrangement of words in a sentence

Prose

Ordinary form of writing

Clause

Anything that has a subject and a verb

Dependent Clause

Depends on the full clause(sentence) to make sense

Independent Clause

Makes a complete sentence and can stand alone

Simple sentence

1 independent clause

Compound sentence

More than 1 independent clause

Complex sentence

1 or more dependent clauses and 1 independent clause

Compound Complex sentence

2 or more independent clauses and 2 or more dependent clauses

Periodic Sentence

dependent clause that starts sentence and the independent clause ends sentence

Cumulative sentence

Independent clause starts sentence and dependent clause ends sentence

Rhetoric

Persuasive language

Ethos

establish the credibility of speaker

Pathos

Appeals to emotion

Logos

Appeals to logic

Deductive reasoning

Challenging hypothesis to come to a response

Inductive reasoning

To come up with a conclusion from existing knowledge

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of the line

Stanza

Paragraph of poetry (any # of lines)

Quatrain

Stanza that has 4 lines

Meter

The number and types of stresses in a line of poetry

Foot

Basic unit of measurement of poetry

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds in near words

Assonance

Repitition of vowel sounds

Consonance

Repeated consonant sounds in the last accented letter and different vowel sounds in front of it

Apostrophe

Speech or poem directed to someone who is not there

Internal rhyme

Rhyme that happens in the line

End rhyme

Rhyme that happens at the end of a line

Near/slant rhyme

Not fully a rhyme but close enough

Antithesis

The use of parallel structure to contrast ideas

Chiasmus

Parallel structure with flipped element

Anaphora

Repetition of initial meaning throughout successive things

Synecdoche

When you use part of the whole to represent the whole

Metonymy

When you use something closely associated with something to represent the whole

Trope

General term for artful diction

Schemes

Artful syntax

Juxtaposition

Compare and contrast something