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Scoggys lit terms
Literary Terms for 9th grade pre-ap/gt/leadership English
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Not attached to anything specific or concrete |
| Active Voice | Verb that is an action(as opposed to passive voice) Ex. Jane sweeps the floor. |
| Ad Hominem | an argument attackikng an individual's character rather than the issue |
| Aesthetic | relating to beauty or to 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 | Repitiion of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words |
| Allusion | A reference within a literacy work to a historical or literary person, place or event. |
| Anachronism | The misplacement of a person, occurrence, custom or idea in a time. Ex. Julius Caesar, a character memntions a watch. Watches did not exist in ancient Rome. |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of a word at the end of a phrase, snetence, 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 comparision between two things that are otherwise unlike. Often analogists draw a comparison between something abstract and something mor 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 a succesive phrases and sentences. |
| Antagonist | The person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protagonist's accomplishment of his/her goal. |
| Anecdote | A brief narration of an even of person. Ex. Aunt Joan loves to tell anecdotes of her childhood. |
| Antecedent | What noun the prounoun is replacing. Ex. "I love reading. It makes me happy." The antecedent of "it" is "reading". |
| Antihero/Antiheroine | A protagonist who is not a good person. |
| Antimetable | Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases. Ex. All work and no play is as harmful to mental health as all play and no work. |
| Anithesis | Parallelism with contradictory ideas. Ex. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... |
| Aporia | Expression of doubt(often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, do. |
| Aposiopesis | A sudden breaking off of speech, usually due to excitement(positive or negative) |
| Apostrophe | Directly addressing either a dead person or an inanimate object. |
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