The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

The truth about life or main message revealed in a work of literature.

is the emotional atmosphere of the text.

techniques that use language to engage the audience and make the argument more vivid and concrete

the methods that a speaker uses to persuade an audience

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

a person in whom power and clout is vested

done poorly or carelessly

to cut off the head of (a person or animal)

being of high quality, especially something from the past

relating to a young animal, human or other organism