This tutorial focuses on describing an author's style. It explains the five main elements constituting style: syntax, diction, punctuation, sensory details, and literary/rhetorical devices. It lists nine common writing styles and gives...

This lesson focuses on how to identify the tone of a passage. It defines tone, explains how to identify positive, negative, and neutral tones, and demonstrates how to identify tone with both a literary and a non-fiction example. [5:14]