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Literary Terms I
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Not attached to anything specific or concrete. |
| Active Voice | Verb that is an action (as opposed to passive voice) Example: Jane sweeps the floor. |
| 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. Example: Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution (Napolean=Stalin, Animal Farm=Russia, etc) |
| 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, occurrence, custom or idea in time. Example: in Julius Caesar, a character mentions a watch. Watches did not exist in acient Rome( they existed in the time of the author, Shakespeare) |
| Anadiplosis | A repitition of a word at the end of a phrase, sentence, etc. which then begins the next phrase, clause, sentence, etc. Example: I ran to the store. The store had plenty of oranges for me. |