Tone and mood words capture the narrator’s attitude and the story’s emotional effect.
Examples of tone words include: lofty, melodramatic, ironic, irreverent, melancholic, sarcastic, and optimistic.
Examples of mood words are: hopeful, suspenseful, whimsical, eerie, uplifting, foreboding, and tragic.
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Dialogue tags are small phrases indicating who is speaking, such as “she said” or “he replied.” Writers often use more descriptive dialogue tags to convey emotion or tone of voice. For example, “she screamed” or “he growled.” These tags can appear either before, after, or in the middle of a line of dialogue. Depending on their position different punctuation and capitalization rules apply. In short, dialogue tags are essential not only for clarifying who is speaking, but also for showing how characters interact.
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A dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in a book, play, or film. In prose, lines of dialogue are typically enclosed in quotation marks and followed by a dialogue tag (e.g., “he said”).
Writers use dialogue to create believable characters or to advance the plot by providing background information about the story.
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There are many examples of unreliable narrators in literature. Some famous works that use this technique are:
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Heart of Darknesss by Joseph Conrad
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
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A frame narration is often called a “story within a story.” In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the narrator gives some introductory descriptions, but then almost the entire novella is his retelling of the tale that Marlow tells his listeners.
A frame narration is a useful technique for putting distance between the author and their reader, as it is more clear that the author and narrator are not the same person.
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In many ways, it’s never been easier to become a content writer. All you need is access to the internet and somewhere to publish. Now, of course, that doesn’t mean you’ll make any money for that.
Keeping a personal blog is, however, a good way of building up a body of work so that if you apply for jobs as a content writer, you have a portfolio of work.
Other steps you can take are to put in bids on Fiverr, keep a LinkedIn profile, and offer to produce content for charities, schools, and other good causes.
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The three key rules of a sonnet are:
- Fourteen lines: A sonnet always has exactly 14 lines
- Specific rhyme scheme: It must follow an established rhyme pattern, such as ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Shakespearean/English) or ABBA ABBA CDECDE/CDCDCD (Petrarchan/Italian).
- Iambic Pentameter: Each line typically has ten syllables with an unstressed-stressed pattern.
Modern sonnets sometimes vary from these traditional conventions while maintaining the essential sonnet structure. Need help brainstorming or perfecting your poem? Use QuillBot’s AI Chat to get tips, feedback, or even inspiration tailored to your writing goals.
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The poem “The World Is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth is an example of a sonnet. It follows the Petrarchan sonnet form and consists of an octave and a sestet with an ABBA ABBA CDCDCD rhyme scheme. In the first eight lines (the octave), the poet laments about humanity’s disconnection from nature due to materialism. The final six lines (the sestet) present his “solution”: he’d rather believe in pagan gods and feel closer to nature than experience this spiritual alienation.
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Not always. While sonnets do comprise 14 lines, they adhere to other rules too, like specific rhyme and meter. There are 14-line poems that don’t follow these rules and can’t be classified as traditional sonnets. These are, for example, quatorzains and modern sonnets.
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Some synonyms for point of view include “perspective” and “viewpoint.” Other options include “standpoint,” “way of looking at things,” and even “opinion.”
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