English Literature Useful Phrases Cheatsheet:

Effect on Reader Phrases:

● The image is visually captivating and convincing for the reader because…
● This invokes feelings of ... in the reader.
● This brings about the emotion of…. in the reader.
● This further elucidates (disconsolate, sad, melancholic) emotions to the reader.
● This connotes a sense of (melancholy, sorrowful) feelings for the reader.
● This results in the reader experiencing…
● This creates a sad, joyful, frightening... atmosphere.
● This provokes the reader to believe/think/feel…
● This entices the reader to feel...
● This causes a sense of sadness, joy, bewilderment... in the reader
● The writer is trying to infer that…
● The reader deduces from this that…
● The use of the (metaphor/repetition/syntax etc.) demonstrates/ establishes/ highlights/
reinforces that…
● This engages the reader…
● It encourages the reader to imagine...

Author’s Intention:
● To give us a deeper understanding of the character’s emotion or experience.
● To intensify the atmosphere being created by the writer.
● To arouse feelings of fear and suspense

Effect of sound:
● The use of onomatopoeia and auditory imagery encourages the reader to put a mental
soundtrack to the images that are already being streamed within the mind.
● This gives a poetic flow to the writing, thus appealing to the reader’s aesthetic sensibility.

Effect Words/Phrases:
● The theme of _____ is prevalent
● The theme of _____ is underlined through
● The _____ help augment this effect
● The author lucidly depicts…
● Dramatic diction is deployed when…
● hence provoking a deepened sense of sympathy towards the protagonist.