click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Jordans Lit Elements
| 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. |
| Aesthetic | Relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty and taste. |
| Allegory | A narritive in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. Ex:Animal Farm is an allegory for the russian revolution |
| Alliteration | Repetition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words. |
| Anachronism | The misplacement of a person, occurance, custom or idea in time.Ex: In Julius Caesar, a character mentions a watch. Watches did not exist in ancient Rome (existed in the time of Shakespeare |
| Anadiplosis | Repetion of a word at the end of a phrase, sentence, ect. which begins the next phrase, clause, sentence. 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 comparisonbetween something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize. |