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Literary Thingeys
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repitition of similar consonant sounds in the beggining of words |
| abstract | not attched to anything specific or concrete |
| active voice | verb that is in an action |
| ad hominem | an arguement attacking an individual's character rather than the issue |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerened with art, beauty or taste |
| allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning |
| allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person or event |
| anachronism | the missplacement of an person, occurence, custom or idea in time |
| anadiplosis | repitition of a word at the end of a phrase, which then begins the next phrase. |
| analogy | a comparison between two things that are otherwise unalike. uses like or as |
| anaphora | a repitition of a word a the beggining of succesful phrases and sentences |
| antagonist | the person or obstical that gets in the way of the protagonist's accomplishment of his goal |
| anecdote | a brief narration of a event of person |
| antecedent | what noun the person is playing |
| antihero/antiheroin | a protagonist who is not a good person |
| antimetabole | reversing the order of repeted words or phrases |
| antithesis | parallism with contradictory ideas |
| aporia | expresion of doubt by which a speaker appears incertain about what he should say or do or think |
| aposiopesis | a sudden breacking off of speech, usually due to excitment |
| apostrophe | directly addresing either a dead person or inanimate object |
| appeals | method authors use to gain favor in rhetoric, or to establish tones |
| archetype | a theme, motif, symbol, or stock character that holds a familiar place in cultures consciousness |
| assonance | repitition of similair vowel sounds in nearby words |
| asyndeton | the omission or conjunctions in a series |
| bathos | a sudden change from extreme lighthearted to extreme sentiment |
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