Unit VIII Evaluating Style
Academic Vocabulary
1. Diction: Writer’s choice of words.
2. Figures of Speech (Figurative Language): Words or phrases that describe one thing in
terms of another. Not to be taken literally.
3. Tone: Writer’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience.
4. Theme: The story’s central idea or insight about life. The truth about human behavior
the writer wants us to know. A STORY’S THEME MUST BE 1 COMPLETE SENTENCE.
5. Mood: The atmosphere or the feelings a story evokes.
6. Setting: Time and place of a story.
7. Cause: The reason why something happens.
8. Effect: The result.
9. Chain Reaction: One event causes another event and so on.
10. Dialect: Particular was of speaking in a region or within a group of people.