ILTS 207 ELA Content Exam Elaboration [100% PASS] /verified/

ILTS 207 ELA Content Exam Elaboration [100% PASS] /verified/ tone *Ans* the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. AUTHOR FEELS close reading *Ans* describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text= up close look at literature inference *Ans* steps in reasoning, moving from premises to conclusions or using observation and background to reach logical conclusion= use to find intended meaning symbols *Ans* sign that represents, stands for, or suggests another idea, visual image, belief, action, or material entity mood *Ans* emotional state, or feeling you get while reading a story, atmosphere of story HOW WE FEEL metonmy *Ans* figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name, but rather by a metonym, the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept. ex: saying "kicks" instead of shoes contextual associations= part does not have to refer to the whole or vice versa allusion *Ans* figure of speech, indirect or glancing reference to another work, person, place or event. ex: Professor is colder than Darth Vader need to know what is being referenced, because reference is not explained allegory *Ans* literary device that is an extended metaphor ex: Animal Farm catharsis *Ans* when literature provides strong emotional experiences (emotions such as pity and fear) that ultimately result in a sense of purification (renewal and restoration) symbolic foreshadowing *Ans* foreshadowing or guessing ahead which is a literary device that authors use to hit at what is to come litotes *Ans* figure of speech that uses understatement to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect. ex: "She is not unfunny" instead of saying "She is funny" tragedy *Ans* form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasures in audiences ex: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet repetition *Ans* the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.