1. Definitions and Mnemonic Devices
STYLE TERMS
Definitions and Mnemonic Devices

2. STYLE TERMS Tone Attitude Diction Language Figurative Language
Figure of Speech
Detail
Imagery
Point of View
Perspective
Organization
Narrative Structure
Form
Syntax
Sentence Structure
Phrasing

3. TONE
The emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work.
Examples: familiar, ironic, playful, sarcastic, serious, sincere

4. ATTITUDE The author’s or the reader’s feelings toward the subject.
Example: disapproving

5. DICTION
Word choice.
Synonyms include language, figurative language, and figures of speech.
The most powerful element of style for you to understand

6. LANGUAGE
A system for the expression of thoughts, feelings, etc., by the use of spoken sounds of conventional symbols.
A particular manner or style of verbal expression

7. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally.
Includes apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, understatement.

8. FIGURE OF SPEECH
An expression of language by which the usual or literal meaning of a word is not employed.
Examples: simile, metaphor, personification

9. DETAIL Literal or factual description
Concrete detail—who, what, where, when

10. IMAGERY
Language that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience
The vivid mental picture created in the reader’s mind by that language

11. MNEMONIC DEVICE Any learning technique that aids memory retention.
In the mnemonic device for the style terms, you will be given a sentence to memorize. The first letter of each word in the sentence is also the first letter of one of the sixteen terms.

12. MNEMONIC DEVICE (con.)
Toiling alone during lunch, Fred frantically decorated indigo plates perched on north-facing, slippery, sheer pinnacles.

13. CREATE YOUR OWN!
Think you can come up with a better mnemonic device than the example?
Create your own!
Turn your mnemonic device in next class.
All submissions will be compiled and then voted on to see who can come up with the best mnemonic device for style terms!