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littule
arnetts literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything specific or concrete ex. strange looking art |
| active voice | verb that is in action ex. Jane SWEEPS the floor |
| ad hominem | an argument attacking an individuals character rather than the issue ex. You suck (while stuck in the middle of the ocean) |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty and taste a piece of liturature |
| allegory | a narritive in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning ex. Animal farm Napoleon=Stalin |
| alliteration | repition of simaler consonant sounds in the begining of words ex. She sells sea shells by the sea shore |
| anachronism | misplacement of a person, occurence, custom, or idea in time ex. Julius Ceasar mentioning a watch in Julius Ceasar |
| andiplosis | repitition 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, teh store had plenty of oranges |
| analogy | a comparison of two things that are otherwise unlike often between an abstract thing and a concrete thing ex. trying to get answers out of him was like pulling teeth |
| anaphora | repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of succesive phrases or sentences ex. The store was awesome, the store was great |
| antagonist | the opposition to the protagonist ( the bad guy) Madame Defarge |
| anecdote | a brief narration of an event or person Aunt Joan love to tell anecdotes of her childhood |
| antecedent | What noun the pronoun is replacing. I love reading. It is fun (the antecedent is IT) |
| antihero/antiheroine | a protagonist who is not a good person. Han Solo |
| antimetabole | reversing repeated words. All work and no play is just as bad as all play and no work |
| antithesis | parallelism with contradicting ideas. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. |
| aporia | expresion of doubt by which by which a speaker appears uncertain of what they should do. To be or not to be |
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