Vocabulary - Writer's Craft

make more clear

a style an author uses to convey their message in a manner that is effective and meaningful to their audiance

a sequence of events in a story, which includes the setting, characters, conflict, exposition, rising and faling action

a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

punctuation mark that is no longer than a hyphen and is commonly used to indicate a range or a pause

a figure of speech which compares two unlike things using like or as

anything that causes laughter or amusement

a figure of speech which compares two unlike things without using like or as

special importance, value, or prominence given to something

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written

feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

an emotional state or reaction

authentic, genuine, real

not ordinary or typical

punctuation mark that enclases information

any person, animal, figure represented in a story (novel, movie,play, powm, etc.)

the marks, such as peiod, comma, and parentheses, used in writting to seperate sentences and their elements to clarify

a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and undertsand others

give an account of the similarities between two (or more) items or situations

clearly expressed; exact; acurate in detail