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English Terms Eng 1
Literary terms for Mrs. Sones
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 attacking an individual's character rather than the issue |
| Aethetic | Relating to beauty or to a branch of philosphy concerned with art, beauty, and taste |
| Allegory | a narratice in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning Ex: Animal Farm is and allegory for the Russian Revolution (Napoleon=Stalin, Animal Farm= Russia, etc.) |
| Alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words |
| Allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place, or event |
| Anachronism | the misplacement of a person, occurrence, custon, or idea in time Ex: in Julius Caesar, a character mentions a watch. Watches did not exist in ancient Rome (they existed in the time of Shakespear, the author) |
| Anadiplosis | repetion of a word at the end of a phrace, sentence, ect. 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 |
| Anecdote | a brief narration of an even 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." The antecedent of "it" is "reading". |
| antihero/antiheroine | a protagonist who is not a good person |
| antimetabole | 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 |
| Antithesis | 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 (either positive or negative) |
| Apostrophe | directly addressing either a dead person or an inanimate object |
| Appeals | Methods authors use to gain facor in rhetoric or to establish tone |
| Pathos/emotional Appeals | appeals to the audience's feeling and sympathies |
| Logos/logical appeals | appeals to audience's brain/logical side |
| Ethos/ethical appeals | attempts to sway reader by creating a positive impression of hi/her character |
| Archetype | a theme, motif, symbol, or stock character that holds a familiar place in cultures consciousness EX: kinght in shining armor, villian, the sidekick, the Garden of Eden |
| Assonance | repetition of similar vowel sound in nearby words |
| Asyndeton | the ommision or conjunctions in a series Ex: On my desk are pens, books, papers, exams. The omission of the conjuction emphasizes quality |
| Bathos | a sudden change from extreme lighthearted to extreme sentiment |
| Bildungroman | a novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist |
| Caricature | The author's exaggeration or distortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual. Dickens' characters are often caricatures. |
| Cacophony | an arangement of harsh sounding words Ex: Kill, crack, create, danger, cupcake. |
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