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L-terms
Arnett Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Metaphor | A figure of speech, that compares 2 things without using like or as. |
| Shrek | 3 sport Lettermen |
| Abstract | not attatched to anything specific, Vauge |
| Active voice | verb that is an action ex Jane SWEEPS the floor |
| Ad Hominem | Suuper Awesomean argument attacking an individuals character |
| Aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art |
| Allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbols ex Animal farm = Russian revolution |
| Alliteration | reptition of somilar consonant sounds in the beggining of words |
| Allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical thing |
| Anachronism | the mosplacement of a person occurence custom or idea in time.ex the author has the characters mention something like a watch when watches where not around back then but where in the authors time |
| Anadiplosis | repition of word at the end of a phrase,sentence |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things that are otherwise unlike |
| anaphora | repititon of a word or phase at the beginning of a succesive phrases and sentences |
| Antagonist | bad guy |
| Anecdote | a brief narration of an event or a person |
| Antecedent | what noun the pronoun is replacing |
| Antnti hero | protagonist who is not a good person |
| antimetabole | reversing the order of reapeated words or phrases |
| antithesis | parrallism with a contradictory ideas |
| Aporia | expression of doubt when a speaker sounds uncertain as to what they should do |
| aposiopesis | a sudden braking off of speeck usualy do to excitment |
| apostrophe | directly addressing either a dead person or inanimate object |
| appeals | methods the author uses to gain favor |
| archetype | a theme, motif, symbol or stock character that holds a familiar place in a cultures consiousness |
| assonance | repition of similar vowels sounds in nearby words |
| asyndeton | the omission or conjunctions ina series ex on my desk are pens, papers,books, exams. No and |
| Bathos | a sudden change from the extreme lighthearted to extreeme sentiment |
| bildungsroman | a novel about education or physilogical growth of the protagonist |
| caricature | the author exagerating or distorting of certain traits or characterristics of an indiviual |
| cacophony | an arrangment of harsh sounding words ex kill crack create danger cupecake |
| Catharasis | a cleansing or purification of ones emotions through art |
| chiasmus | two phrases in which the syntax is thee same but the placement of words is reversed |
| Climax | turning point |
| cliche | over used expressions, little meaning |
| colloquialism | an informal expression or sleng usually limited to a certain geographical area |
| Comic relief | a character whose actions are comedic and break up tension |
| conceit | a far fethched metaphor or osmile |
| conflict | problem |
| connotation | the emotional side of a word |
| sonsonance | the repitiotion of consonants in a sequence of nearby words |
| denotation | definiton of a word |
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