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Definitions: Literary Style Terms

Across
The feelings that a reader gets when they read a text based on the writer's style and subject matter, most often tone.
The author's specific word choice that is intended to create some kind of effect, such as imagery, tone, or dialect.
When words or phrases are written multiple times in a work, either right after each other or every once in a while in a specific and predictable sequence. Mostly used for emphasis or organizational structure.
When some concrete person, place, or thing in a text stands for a deeper idea or concept. Writers use these a lot to drive their themes forward.
When the writer gives human-like qualities or abilities to a non-human thing.
Of the five senses - sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Descriptive words, mostly adjectives and adverbs, that make the reader feel like they can actually see/touch/taste/hear/smell whatever is being described.
When a writer mentions something else in their text, such as another book, song, or movie.
When the spelling of a word mimics the actual sound that is trying to be described. A form of auditory/sound imagery.
Down
When two unlike things are compared without using like or as, in order to help the reader understand some deeper meaning.
When two unlike things are compared using like or as, in order to help the reader understand some deeper meaning.
When a writer creates hints to what is about to happen later in the story.
1st person, 2nd person, or 3rd person - the perspective of the narrator in a story that shows us what kind of information we are able to get.
Exaggeration, usually for dramatic or comedic effect.
A version of the main language that differs from other versions in grammar, vocabulary, and perhaps accent. These are usually socially or regionally defined.
The attitude of the writer towards their subject in writing. Influences mood.