Ryan Appleby's Literary Terms

4. Is the authors unique way of writing.
5. An authors choice of words.
7. The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures are created by details of sound, sight, touch, taste, smell, or movement.
11. A comparison between two dissimilar things, they do not use "like" or "as".
14. ex Machina Means "god from the machine" is the use of some unexpected or improbable incident to make things turn out right in the plot of a text.
17. A word is the set of ideas associated with it.
18. The techniques a writer uses and reveal the personalities of a character.
20. A recurring theme, image, or idea in a story. They serve to reinforce the primary themes. They can be obvious or subtle.
21. A phrase that has a different meaning from what its words literally suggest.
22. Irony A contrast between what a speaker says and what the speaker actually means.

1. Refers to the feeling that a writer creates in a story.
2. The writers attitude towards her or her audience or subject.
3. A direct comparison between two things that uses "like" or "as".
4. Refers to the particular arrangement of the words in a sentence..
6. An insight, based on stated details, about information that is not stated.
8. A character's sudden flash of insight into a conflict or situation.
9. Irony Occurs when events turn out contrary to what is expected or what seems appropriate.
10. A portrait in words of a person, place, or object. A description is a complete set of images, the finished product dependent on the use of imagery.
12. A word in its dictionary meaning.
13. A conversation between characters that may reveal their traits.
15. Irony Occurs when someone feigns ignorance in order to expose a flaw or weakness in another's position on an issue.
16. Irony Occurs when the reader knows more about a situation than charterers do.
19. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning.