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Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Allegory ? | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative. |
| What is Alliteration ? | The repetition of initial identical sounds. |
| What is an Allusion ? | Figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure or event or object. It is usually very indirect. |
| What is Anachronism ? | An assignment of something to a time when it did not exist. |
| What is Anadiplosis ? | Repetition when the last word of one line is repeated at the beginning of the next. |
| What is an Anagram ? | A word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another. |
| What is an Analogy ? | A comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects. |
| What is Anaphora ? | Repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. |
| What is Anastrophe ? | Inversion of the normal, usual or logical order of the parts of a sentence. |
| What is an Anecdote ? | A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event, an incident in life. |
| What is an Annotation ? | The addition of explanatory notes to a text by an author or an editor. |
| What is an Antagonist ? | The character directly opposite to the protagonist. A rival, enemy or opponent to the protagonist. |
| What is Anthropomorphism ? | The ascription of human characteristics to nonhuman objects. (Personification is similar to this but is much more limited.) |
| What is an Anticlimax ? | An arrangement of details such that the lesser appears at the point where something greater is expected. |
| What is an Antihero ? | A protagonist of a modern play or novel who has the converse of most of the traditional attributes of the hero. He/she is graceless, inept, sometimes stupid, sometimes dishonest. |
| What is an Antithesis ? | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. |
| What is Aphorism ? | A concise statement of principle or precept given in pointed words. |
| What is an Apostrophe ? | A figure of speech in which someone (usually but always absent) some abstract quality or nonexistent personage directly addressed as though present. |
| What is Apposition ? | The placing of an immediate succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, one of which is an explanation, qualification or modification of the first. |
| What is Archaism ? | Intentional use of obsolete phrasing, idiom or syntax. |
| What is an Archetype ? | From Carl Jung, this term has come to mean in literary criticism an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion or folklore. |
| What is Assonance ? | Same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds. This is different from rhyme because rhyme is similiarity in vowel and consonant. |
| What is Asyndeton ? | Condensed form of expression in which elements customarily joined by conjunctions are presented in a series without conjunctions. |
| What is a Ballad ? | Form of a verse to be sung or recited, tells a story. |
| What is Bildungsgroman ? | A novel that deals with the development of a young person. |
| What is a Blank Verse ? | Unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line with pattern of unstressed, stressed). |
| What is Cacophony ? | The opposite of euphony; a harsh unpleasant sound or combination of sounds. Highly subjective. |
| What is Cadence ? | The sound patterns in a line. |
| What is Caesura ? | A pause or break in a line or verse. |
| What is a Catalog ? | A list of people, things or attributes |
| What is Periphrasis ? | The use of overly long or indirect speech in order to say something. |
| What is Rhetoric ? | The undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast. |
| What is a Rhetorical Question ? | A question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply. |
| What is Pathetic Fallacy ? | The attribution of human characteristics to nature or to inanimate objects. |
| What is Ethos ? | The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture or movement. |
| What is Logos ? | The basis for the English word LOGIC. It refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect, the general meaning "logical argument." |
| What is Pathos ? | Emotional or motivational appeals; vivid language, emotional language and sensory details. |
| What is Catharsis ? | In Greek |
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