Key terminology for 'The Color Purple'

Literary terms:

Epistolary novel

Feminism

Figurative language

Genre

Historical and social context

Indirect speech

Narrative tension

Narrative viewpoint

Patriarchal Society

Protagonist

Voice

Language techniques:

AAVE

Colloquial language

Dialect

Declarative sentence

Ellipsis

Emotive words

Euphemism

Exclamative sentence

Graphology (or graphological features)

Imperative sentence

Interrogative sentence

Lexis

Non-fluency features

Non Standard English

Pronouns

Semantic field

Standard English

Taboo language

Terms of address

Tone