Review: Part to Whole

Imagery is when an author describes images that appeal to your senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.

Writers pick the right word for just the right purpose. This includes vivid, specific verbs (action words).

Writers help readers see one thing in terms of another by comparing two things using "like" or "as."

Writers spell out the way characters are thinking by putting their thoughts on the page.

Symbolism helps readers see one thing in terms of another by making a concrete thing represent an abstract idea.

When writers use the same words, phrases, or lines again and again, to make you think about the message.

Writers help readers see one thing in terms of another by making a NON-LIVING thing have HUMAN characteristics.

The term “extended metaphor” refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a text.

An action or reaction that is a key to that character's personality and to those issues most important to him.

This is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Writers reveal characters through what they say out loud (in quotes).

The AUTHOR'S attitude toward his subject. This is not a character's attitude or reaction to a situation or event.

Writers help readers see one thing in terms of another by comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as."

These could all be examples of tone: calm, sympathetic, defensive, panicked, reflective, and banana.