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Literary terms
English II literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | a literary work that has two or more meanings |
| alliteration | a repetition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables |
| allusion | a reference to a well known person, place, event, or work of art |
| analogy | an extended comparison of relationships. For example, water is to pool as sand is to ...... |
| assonnance | a repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar consonant sounds |
| blank verse | unrhymed poem usually written in iambic pentameter |
| climax | the high point of a story |
| comedy | a literary work that usually has a happy ending |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces. |
| connotation | the association that a word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary meaning |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines in the same meter |
| denotation | is the definition of a word that can be found in a reference book like a dictionary |
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