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Mood

A particular emotion or psychological state often created by positive or negative descriptive words.

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Motif

The repeated use of an image, that reminds the audience about something important through communicating con stand reminders of it.

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Narrative perspective

Who or what is the focus of the narrative.

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Ominous

An indication something bad is going to happen.

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Omission

To leave out important information when talking about something or someone,, in order to give a misleading impression of that thing or person.

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Pathetic fallacy

The use of nature to reflect events and feelings, and actions of humans within them.

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Pathos

Emotion feeling created in persuasive language.

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Plosive

The sound made by saying a letter such as d or p, which are known to be plosive because of how they are pronounced.

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Purpose

The reason a writer has for writing a text (the intention a writer has as how the audience responds to a text).

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Retrospect

To think about something in the past, given with a different opinion that was originally formed.

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Register

The use of tone, volume, pitch, inflection, fluency, vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure that give the correct degree of formally / informally appropriation for the specific context / audience. There’s a clear distinction between formal and informal.

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Rhetorical question

A question that does not requiere an answer and invites the audience to think about it.

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Satire

Criticising something / someone through humorously mocking and making fun of them; highlighting their failures.

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Sociopath

Someone who behaves in an extremely antisocial way or has extremely antisocial attitudes.

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Soliloquy

The thoughts of a character spoken by them alone, and which are not heard by another character (it provides insight from the audience into what a character is really thinking or feeling).

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Suspense

A feeling of nervousness or excitement about what might happen.

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Syntax

How words are arranged in sentences and phrases in order to convey their meaning.

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Stream of consciousness

Character’’s direct thoughts are written or spoken in a way that reflects the continuos flow or such thoughts in the reader’s mind.

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Synthesis

A powerful thinking skill that involves bringing together and combining different elements into one.

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Third-person limited narration

The story is told from the (limited) point of view of one character.

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Third-person objective narration

A narrator recounts facts about what characters say and do, but does not say anything about their thoughts/ feelings.

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Third-person omniscient narration

The narrator sees and knows everything.

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Tone

The way in which words are spoken using certain vocabulary, sentence structure, sentence type and so on.

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Wit

The ability to express oneself in a clever and intelligent way, and often a way which might make other people laugh..

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