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arnett vocab 1
literary elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attatched to anythin specific or concrete |
| active voice | verb that is an action (as opposed to passive voice) Example: Jane sweeps the floor. |
| ad hominem | an arguement attacking an induviduals character rather than the issue |
| aestheic | relating to beauty or a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty and taste |
| allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. Example: Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution (Napoleon= stalin, Animal Farm= Russia, ect.) |
| alliteration | repitition of a similar constant sounds in the beginning of words |
| anachronism | the misplacement of a person, occurence, custom, or idea in time. Example: in Julius Caesar, a character mentions a watch. Watches didnt exist in ancient rome(they existed in the time of the autor, shakespeare) |
| anadiplosis | repitition of a word at the end of a phrase, sentence, ect. which begins the next phras, clause, sentence, ect. Example: I ran to the store. The store had plenty of aranges for me. |
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