Key Terms

• Jingoism 


  extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.
• Litote 


  understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.
• Verbosity 


  the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness.
• Brevity 


  concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
• Visual Imagery


  Imagery which creates a visual picture in the reader's mind
• Auditory Imagery


  Words which create a sound in the reader's mind
• Olfactory Imagery


  Imagery which describes a smell
• Gustatory Imagery


  Words which cause the reader to imagine the taste of something
• Tactile Imagery


  Description of the way something feels when touched
• Organic Imagery


  Words which create a bodily sensation; hunger, hunger, thirst, nausea,fatigue,etc
• Kinesthetic Imagery


  Words which describe the movement or tension in the muscles or joints
• Remember does it create

  Setting

  Mood

  Character

  Theme