writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning of a work
Tone
Mood
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Word choice, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language
Denotation
Diction
Connotation
What is the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word?
What a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning.
A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
Alliteration
Allusion
Repetition of the initial consonant sound
Onomatopoeia
a word that imitates the sound it represents
Assonance
repetition of consonants other than at the beginning of words
Consonance
