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9th Lit Terms EGL
Literary Terms for 9th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything specific or concrete |
| active voice | verb that is an action ex: Jane sweeps he floor |
| ad hominem | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than the issue ex: don't vote for her because she's fat |
| aesthetic | 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 ex: Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution |
| alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words ex: The white washed walls were bright. |
| allusion | a refrence within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place or event |
| anachronism | the misplacement of a person, occurence, custom of idea in time ex: in Julius Caesar, a character mentions a watch (which didn't in ancient Rome) |
| anadiplosis | repetition of a word at the end of a phrase, sentence, etc. which then begins the next phrase, clause, sentence, etc. ex: I ran to the store. The store had plenty of oranges for me. |
| 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 ex: Trying to get a confession out of the suspect was like pulling teeth. |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases and sentences |
| antagonist | the person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protagonist's accomplishment of his/her goal ex: Napolean from Animal Farm |
| anecdote | a brief narration of an event or person ex: Aunt Joan loves to tell anecdotes of her childhood. |
| antecedent | what noun the pronoun is replacing ex: I love reading. It makes me happy. It is the antecedent of reading |
| antihero/antiheroine | a protgaonist who is not a good person ex: the evil robot in the Terminator |
| antimetabole | reversing the order of repeated words or phrases ex: all work and no play is as harmful as all play and no work |
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