English Review

2. express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
3. a writer of a book, article, or report.
4. a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
6. a firm decision to do or not to do something.
11. a temporary state of mind or feeling.
12. add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.
13. the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
15. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
16. a person in a novel, play, or movie.
17. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
19. the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
21. visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
22. a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems.
23. prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or histor
26. a specific type of music, film, or writing
27. he main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

1. the act of characterizing. especially : the artistic representation (as in fiction or drama) of human character or motives
5. the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
6. correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
7. books and writings published on a particular subject
8. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
9. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
10. the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
11. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
14. literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people.
16. a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
18. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
20. book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form.
24. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
25. mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement.