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Literary Terms
Arnett Flash Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | not attached to anything specific or concrete |
| Active Voice | verb that is action (as opposed to passive voice) Ex: Jane sweeps the floor. |
| Ad Hominem | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than an issue |
| Aesthetic | Relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty,, and taste. |
| Allegory | narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. Ex: Animal Farm) |
| Alliteration | Repitition of similar consonant sounds in the beggining of words. |
| Allusion | A referance within a literary work to a historicalor literary person, place or event. |
| Anachronism | The misplacement of a person, occurence, custom or idea in time. Ex: Julius Caesar |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of a word at the end of the phase, sentence, etc. which then begins the next phrase, clause, sentence. |
| Analogy | Comparison between 2 things that are otherwise unlike. Often analogies draw a comparison between something abstractand something more concrete or easier to visualize. |
| Anaphora | Repitetion of a word or phrase at the beggining of succesive phrases or sentences. |
| Antagonist | Person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protanganist's way of his/her goal. |
| Anecdote | Brief narration of an event or person. |
| Antecedent | What noun the pronoun is replacing. |
| Antihere/Antiheroine | Protanganist who is not a good person |
| Antimetabole | Reversing the order of repeating or phrases. |
| Antithesis | paralellism with contradictory ideas. |