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A fictional voice created by an author to tell a story (fiction) or for a specific effect.
Persona
Inanimate objects, animals, ideas, or abstractions which an author endows with human traits or form.
Personification
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
A logical fallacy which implies that because one thing follows another, the first thing causes the second.
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue.
Red Herring
When a writer demonstrates the falsehood of opposing arguments using valid backing.
Refutation
A word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity.
Repetition
The art of effective communication.
Rhetoric
A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human nature or behavior by portraying it in an extreme way.
Satire
A type of verbal irony which usually expresses the opposite of a word’s dictionary definition (denotation).
Sarcasm
A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
Simile
The choices in diction, appeals, figurative language, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. Tends to be unique to specific writers.
Style
A concrete object, event, or person that represents a (usually larger) abstract idea.
Symbol
The central idea in a work of fiction or nonfiction.
Theme
The writer’s attitude about a topic revealed in his or her text revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.
Tone
