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Lit terms #2
08/22/2023
Question | Answer |
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apollonian | refers to the noble qualities of human beings and nature as opposed to the savage and destructive forces |
apostrophe | addressing someone or something , usually not present, as though they are present; often to a god, ghost or some supernatural thing |
apotheosis | a larger-than-life presence |
appeal to ignorance | a claim that whatever has not been proved |
aside | a statement delivered by an actor in such a way that the other characters onstage are presumed not to have heard him |
arguments | assertions made based on facts, statistics, logical or objective reasoning |
assonance | similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words; usually in a line of verse |
asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or phrases, as in "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" |
aubade | a poem about mourning |
auditory imagery | word choices that appeal to the ear that help you "hear" the words |
autobiography | author's own life story; first-person account |
ballad | a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by a dramatic or exciting episode in a fairly short narrative |
carpe diem | (Latin meaning is seize the day)--a theme, especially common in lyric poetry to emphasize that life is short, time is fleeting and one should make the most of the present experiences |
bathos | an anticlimax which is unintentional; an unintentional shift from sublime to the ridiculous which can result from the use of elevated language used to describe trivial subject matter |
begging the question | also called assuming the answer; a persuasive fallacy in which the writer assumes the reader will automatically accept the assertion without proper support |