STYLE TERMSDefinitions and Mnemonic Devices

STYLE TERMSToneAttitudeDictionLanguageFigurative

LanguageFigure of

SpeechDetailImagery

Point of ViewPerspectiveOrganizationNarrative

StructureFormSyntaxSentence

StructurePhrasing

TONEThe emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work.

Examples: familiar, ironic, playful, sarcastic, serious, sincere

ATTITUDEThe author’s or the reader’s feelings toward the subject.

Example: disapproving

DICTIONWord choice.Synonyms include language, figurative language, and figures of speech.

The most powerful element of style for you to understand

LANGUAGEA system for the expression of thoughts, feelings, etc., by the use of spoken sounds of conventional symbols.

A particular manner or style of verbal expression

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEWriting or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally.

Includes apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, understatement.

FIGURE OF SPEECHAn expression of language by which the usual or literal meaning of a word is not employed.

Examples: simile, metaphor, personification

DETAILLiteral or factual descriptionConcrete detail—who, what, where, when

IMAGERYLanguage that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience

The vivid mental picture created in the reader’s mind by that language

MNEMONIC DEVICEAny learning technique that aids memory retention.

In the mnemonic device for the style terms, you will be given a sentence to memorize. The first letter of each word in the sentence is also the first letter of one of the sixteen terms.

MNEMONIC DEVICE (con.)Toiling alone during lunch, Fred frantically decorated indigo plates perched on north-facing, slippery, sheer pinnacles.

CREATE YOUR OWN!Think you can come up with a better

mnemonic device than the example?Create your own!Turn your mnemonic device in next

class.All submissions will be compiled and

then voted on to see who can come up with the best mnemonic device for style terms!