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PreAp eng. vocab (:
mrs arnetts crazy literary terms(:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attatched to anything specific or concrete |
| active voice | verb that is an action *jane SWEEPS the floor* |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosopohy concerned with art beauty and taste |
| allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning correspionds directly with a symbolic meaning *napoleon-stalin**animal farm-russia* |
| alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words *silly snakes slithered* |
| allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place or event |
| anachronism | the misplacdeement of a person occurence custom or idea in time. *in julius caeser a character mntions a watch. watches didnt exist in ancient rome.* |
| anadiplosis | repitition of a word at the end of a phrase sentence etc. which then begins the next clause |