Keystone Vocabulary Monologue-Voice

An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.

The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar, and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning.

The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or the work itself.

The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author.

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.

A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts, spoken aloud by one character alone on the stage

A character that symbolically embodies well-known meanings and basic human experiences.

PT- Makes an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information.

The ordering of words in meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.

PT- An attack on a person instead of an issue

A playwright's written instructions in the text of a play.

The generally accepted importance or value of a work to represent human experience 

Persuasive tactics used to influence people to believe, buy, or do something.

PT- Attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument.

The position of the narrator in relation to the story.

The author's choices about language, sentence structure, voice, and tone.

The portion of a story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved.

PT- Persuade the reader by using words that appeal to the reader's emotions instead of logic

PT - Persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product of idea.

Elements of literature that emphasize sound.

Information aimed at positively or negatively influencing the opinions or behaviors of people

The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices.

The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem.

PT- Attempts to persuade the reader by repeating a message over and over again.

The author's method of structuring a text from beginning to end.

PT-Attempts to persuade the reader by showing how many people think something is true.

A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.

Topic of discussion/work; a major idea broad enough to cover the whole scope of literary work.

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.

PT- Persuades the reader, to do, think, or buy something because it is popular

The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story.

PT- States a conclusion as part of the proof of the argument.

Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning.