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Literary STUFF
Literary things that we are doing in ELA 9th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything specific of concrete |
| active voice | verb that is an action (as opposed to passive voice) |
| ad hominem | an argument attacking an individuals chracter rather than the issue |
| aethetic | relating to beauty of branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty, and taste |
| allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning ex Animal Farm |
| alliteration | repitition of simular consonant sounds in the beggining of words |
| allusion | a reference within a literary person place or event |
| anachronism | The misplacement if a person, occurence, or idea in time. Ex in Julius Caesar a chracter mentions a watch, but watches didn't exisist in Rome in that time, the exisisted in Shakespears time |
| anadipolis | repetition of a word at the end of a phrase, sentence, etc. which then begins th enext 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 concretw or easier to visualize Ex Trying to get a confession out of someone is like pulling teeth |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beggining of successive phrases and sentences |
| antagonist | The person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protagonists accomplishment of his/her goal |
| anecdote | a brief narration of an event or persom |
| antecedent | What noun the pronoun is replacing |
| antihero | a protagonist who is not a good person |
| antimetabole | reversing the order of repeated words or phrases |
| anitithesis | parallelism with contadictory ideas |
| aporia | expression of doubt by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think or do |
| aposiopesis | a sudden breaking off of speech usually due to excitement |
| apostrophe | directly addressiong either a dead person or an inanimate object |
| appeals | methods authors use to gain favor in rhetoric or to establish tone Pathos/emotional appeals-ways to audiences fellings and sympathies Logos/logical appeals-gets to audiences brain/ logical side Ethos/ethical appeals- making creative positive impression |
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