Purpose

Tone Mood Rhetoric Discourse Aesthetics Philosophical Argument Theme

Purpose Thesis Voice Style Irony Philosophical Position Pace

Main Point Stance Patterns Credibility Text Form Audience

Tools

Alliteration Allusion Analogy Anecdote Archetypes Aside Assonance Caesura Characterization Climax Concrete Details Connotation/Denotation Consonance Denouement Dialect Dialogue Diction Enjambment Evidence Exposition Falling Action Flashback Foreshadowing Form Fragments Genre Hyperbole Irony Imagery Juxtaposition Metaphor Metonymy Monologue Motif Narrator Onomatopoeia Paradox Parallel Structure Parenthetical Statements Personification Plot Structure (Exposition, Rising Action, Falling Action, Climax, Denoument/Resolution) Point-of-View Repetition Rhyme Rhythm Rising Action Sensory Details Setting Speaker Sequence of Information Simile Soliloquy Sound Devices (Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia) Stanza Structural Features Subgenre Support Symbol Synecdoche Syntax Tone Understatement Use of Slang

How does an author use tools to achieve purpose in his/her writing?