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a temporary state of mind or feeling.
"I am in the mood for chicken." |
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
"Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet." |
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visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
"the "golden sun" painting the sky (visual)" |
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| Words can be chosen for either their denotative meaning, which is the definition you'd find in a dictionary or the connotative meaning, which is the emotions, circumstances, or descriptive variations the word evokes. |
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| negative and positive connotation |
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| Positive connotations evoke pleasant feelings or ideas, like the word "unique" suggesting something special, while negative connotations trigger unpleasant emotions, such as "nosy" implying an unwelcome intrusion |
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| a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. |
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| pause is known as “caesura,” which is a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. It often occurs in the middle of a line, or sometimes at the beginning and the end. |
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| A kenning, which is derived from Norse and Anglo-Saxon poetry, is a stylistic device defined as a two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors. A Kenning poem is also defined a riddle that consists of a few lines of kennings, which describe someone or something in confusing detail. |
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| Diction is a writer’s choice of words. Through diction, an author expresses a particular tone or attitude through his speaker. The choice of words is purposeful in order to convey a particular style or have an intended effect on the audience. |
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Homophones are words that have exactly the same sound (pronunciation) but different meanings and (usually) spelling.
For example, the following two words have the same sound, but different meanings and spelling:
hour (noun: 60 minutes)
our (possessive adjective: belonging to us) |
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Omniscient is a literary technique of writing a narrative in third person, in which the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story.
Omniscient has two basic types:
Omniscient Point of View – When a narrator has knowledge about all the characters in a narrative, it is an omniscient, or all-knowing, point of view.
Limited Omniscient Point of View – In limited omniscient point of view, a narrator has limited knowledge of just one character, leaving other major or minor characters |
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| descriptive language/figurative language |
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| When writing descriptions, two types of descriptive words – adjectives and adverbs – can be used to make the description more specific. Figurative language is a linguistic tool used to depict something in a manner other than literal. Some of the types of figurative language are metaphors, similes, personifications, hyperboles and symbolism. |
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