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A tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities.
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The repetition of initial consonance sounds in words.
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Literary terms 100
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. | Allegory |
| The repetition of initial consonance sounds in words. | Alliteration |
| A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize. | Allusion |
| A comparison made between 2 things to show the similarities between them. | Analogy |
| A poetic foot consisting of 2 unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. | Anapest |
| A person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or in a narrative. | Antagonist |
| A terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life. | Aphorism |
| A figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or somthing inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly. | Apostrophe |
| In drama, a short speech spoken by a character in an undertone or directly to the audience. | Aside |
| The repetition of vowel sounds, especially in poetry. | Assonance |
| A story told in verse and usually meant to be sung. | Ballad |
| Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. | Blank verse |
| a break or pause in a line of poetry, which contributes to the rythm of the poem. | Caesura |
| A movement or tendancy in art, literature, and music reflecting the principles manifested in the art of Ancient Greece and rome. | Classicm |
| The decisive point in a narrative or drama; the point of greatest intensity or intrest. | Climax |
| A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between 2 startling different things. | Conceit |
| Poetry that uses the appearance of the verse lines on the page to suggest or imitate the poems subject. | Concrete poetry |
| Poetry that makes frank, explicit use of incidents in the poets life. | Confessional poetry |
| A struggle between 2 opposing forces or characters in a short story. | Conflict |
| The repetition of similar consonant sounds within a group of words. | consonance |
| 2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. | Couplet |
| A poetic foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables. | Dactyl |
| The outcome of a plot. | Denouement |
| The characteristic speech of a paticular region or social group. | Dialect |
| A writer's choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision. | Diction |
| A narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. | dramatic monologue |
| A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. | Elligy |
| A long narrative poem describing the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the great values of culture from which it originated. | Epic |
| A short, witty statment in prose or verse | Epigram |
| A quotation or motto at the beginning of a chapter, book, short story, or poem that makes some point about the work. | Epigraph |
| An inscription on a gravestone or a short poem written in memory of someone who has died | Epitaph |
| A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or somthing, such as quotation "fareweather friend" or "Katherine the Great" | Epithet |
| A prose work, usually short, that deals with a subject in a limited way and expressed a particular point of view. | Essay |
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