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lit terms wordbank1a
lit terms wordbank1 A's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "the most dangerous game" | Double Entendre |
| swimming from the atlantic to the pacific. | Absurd |
| Allegory | Animal Farm |
| Alliteration | "She sells sea shells down by the sea shore" |
| "dont ask short got curves for the LAP" | Allusion |
| Cliff hanger:up to interpretation | Ambiguity |
| Abstract | Something that is difficult to understand |
| theoretical; not applied or practical | |
| Absurd | illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense |
| Allegory | The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form |
| Alexandrine | A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables |
| a line of verse in poetry that has six iambic feet | |
| Alliteration | the repetition of a leading vowel or consonant sound in a phrase |
| A common example in English is "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers" | alliteration |
| Allusion | figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance |
| passing reference or indirect mention | |
| Ambiguity | an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context |
| Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | |
| Anachronism | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp |
| a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare | |
| Analogy | similarity, parallelism; comparability |
| drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain | |
| anecdote | short account of an incident (biographical Interesting or amusing usually |
| Anthropomorphism | act of giving human qualities to things which are not human Antihero |
| For example, John, a carpenter, goes to work each day during the week:In this example, a carpenter renames John, so the carpenter is considered an | appositive |
| antagonist | against main character often a villain but can be animal or natural force in conflict with protagonist. |
| Archaism | something characteristic of an earlier period; outmoded word or phrase; outmoded phenomenon |
| An ancient, antiquated, or old | fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use |
| Archetype | The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based |
| Argument | An argument is a statement (premise) or group of statements (premises) offered in support of another statement (conclusion) |
| Artistic License | the freedom to create an artwork, musical work, or piece of writing based on the artist's interpretation and mainly for effect; also called poetic license, etc |
| Anacronism | a serenade, the sword in mordern warfare. |
| Lord Voldemort | Antagonist |
| word to which pronoun refers | antecedent |
| she kicked off her heelsimmediately, Jen's feet were tired after such a long day. | antecedent |
| anticlimax | event,conclusion or statement that is far less important, powerful or striking than expected. |
| graduation at H.H.S. | Anticlimax |
| Protagonist who is lacking traditional heroic attributes and qualities and instead possesses character traits that are not necesarily protrayed as heroic. | Antihero |
| Opposition/contrast. Right and wrong | antithesis |
| Aphorism | Saying tha tembodies a general truth or astute observation. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." |
| Apostrophe | punctuation mark |
| marks ommissions and assists in marking the possessives of all nouns and many pronouns. | apostrophe |
| Appositive | renames the noun that comes before the appositive. |
| John,a carpenter, goes to work each day during the week. Whats the appositive? | carpenter |
| archetype | original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or based. |
| a new dress design | archetype |
| arguement | statement (premise) that supports another statement |
| Artistic license | freedom to create an artwork, besed on the artists interpretation |
| ____provokes controversy by offending those who resent the reinterpretation of cherished beliefs or previous works | Artistic license |
| black jesus in like a prayer by madonna | Artistic license |
| assonance | resemblance of sounds |
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