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olivia literary elem
literary elements for Arnetts class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything specific or concrete |
| active voice | verb that is an action (as opposed to passive voice) |
| ad hominem | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than the issue |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty and taste |
| allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. |
| alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words |
| allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place or event |
| anachronism | the misplacement of a person, occurence, custom or idea in time. |
| anadiplosis | repetition of a word at the end of a phrase, sentence, etc. which begins the next phrse, clause, sentence, etc. |
| analogy | a comparison between two things that are otherwise unlike. often analogies draw a comparison between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrases and sentences |
| antagonist | the person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protagonist's accomplishment of his/her goal. |
| anecdote | a brief narration of an event or person. |
| antecedent | what noun the pronoun is replacing. |
| antihero/antiheroine | a protagonist who is not a good person |
| antimetabole | reversing the order or repeated words or phrases |
| antithesis | parallelism with contradictory ideas. |
| aporia | expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, do. |
| aposiopesis | a sudden breaking off of speech, usually due to excitement (either positive or negative) |
| apostrophe | directly addressing either a dead person or an inanimate object |
| appeals | methods authors use to gain favor in rhetoric, or to establish tone |
| archetype | a theme, motif, symbol or stock character that holds a familiar place in culture's consciousness |
| assonance | repetition or similar vowle sounds in nearby words |
| asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions in a series. |
| bathos | a sudden change from extreme lighthearted or extreme sentiment. |
| bildungsroman | a novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist |
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