Literary+Terms


 * Attitude: the feelings of the speaker towards subject, idea or person
 * Diction: the author's choice of words that create tone, attitude, and style as well as meaning
 * Low Diction
 * Middle Diction- "The Eagle"
 * High Diction- "My Mistress' Eyes", "Death, be not proud"
 * Imagery: the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses; Ex. "Dulce et Decorum est"
 * Auditory Imagery: imagery that appeals to sound
 * Gustatory Imagery: imagery that appeals to taste
 * Literal Imagery: physically visible object in the poem or story
 * Kinesthetic Imagery: image that involves motion
 * Olfactory Imagery: imagery that appeals to smell
 * Tactile Imagery: imagery that appeals to touch
 * Metaphor: a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were something else
 * Simile: to help reader/poet to understand by looking at specific characteristics of two dissimilar things; does not have to link/equate all parts
 * Syntax: the manner in which words are arranged in sentence that work with diction to create tone, attitude, style and meaning
 * Theme: the main idea or meaning of a text
 * Tone : the quality of something that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author