Author’s craft  - intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work; author’s craft may vary by genre, Author’s purpose  - the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work, Figurative language  - language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices, Simile  - a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as, Metaphor - a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally, Personification - igurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities, Imagery  - the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions. Imagery can be used for emotional effect and to intensify the impact on the reader, Literary device  - a specific convention or structure—such as imagery, irony, or foreshadowing—that is employed by the author to produce a given effect, Poetic form  - a distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes such as a sonnet, blank verse, ballad, haiku, epic, lyric, etc., Poetry  - iterary works focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often rhythmical and may have elements such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas, Point of view - the perspective from which the events in the story are told, Sound device  - a device used by authors to create meaning through sound and help readers develop visual images, Alliteration  - the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables, End rhyme  - two or more lines that end in rhyming syllables or words, Internal rhyme  - a rhyme within the same line of verse, Onomatopoeia - the use of words that sound like what they mean; a poetic device to produce this effect, Assonance  - the repetition of vowel sounds in words close together within a phrase or sentence; the vowel sounds can occur in the beginning, middle, or end of a word, Consonance  - the repetition of consonant sounds in words close together within a phrase or sentence; the consonant sounds can occur in the beginning, middle, or end of a word, Theme  - the central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to morals and/or values and speaks to the human experience/condition, Voice  - articulation or expression in coherent form, either verbally or in a piece of writing, Word choice  - the author’s thoughtful use of precise vocabulary to fully convey meaning to the reader,

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