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Literary terms
terms for 9th grade pap eng 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything specific |
| active voice | verb that is an action |
| ad hominem | arguement attacking n 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 narrative with symbolic meaning |
| alliteration | repitition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words |
| allusion | reference within a literary work to a historical person, place or event |
| anachronism | misplacement of person in time |
| anadipolis | repititon of word or phrase at the end of a sentence |
| analogy | comparison between two things that are unlike |
| anaphora | repition at the beginning of succsecive sentences |
| antagonist | person or obstacle in a storythat gets in the way of the pretagonists goal |
| anecdote | brief narration of event or place |
| antecedent | what noun the pronoun replaces |
| antihero | protagonist who isnt a good person |
| antimetabole | reversing the order of repeated words or phrases |
| antithesis | parallelism with contradictory ideas |
| aporia | expression of doubt by which a speaker is uncertain of what to do |
| aposiopesis | sudden breaking off speech in story |
| apostrophe | directly addressing either a dead or inatimate object |
| appeals | Meathods used by authors to gain favor in rhetoric: emotional logical ethical |
| archetype | theme that holds familiar place in cultures consciousness |
| assonance | reptition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words |
| asyndeton | omission or conjunctions in a series |
| bathos | sudden change from extreme lighthearted to extreme sentiment |
| bildungsroman | novel about education or psychological growth of protagonist |
| caricature | author's exaggeration of certain traits of an individual |
| cacophony | an arrangement of harsh-sounding words like kill, crack,danger,create,cupcake |
| carthis | cleansing of one's emotions through art |
| chiasmus | two phrases in which the syntax is the same but the placement if words is reversed |
| climax | moment of great intensity in story |
| cliche | expressions that aer used frequently that they aren't powerful |
| colloqualism | informal expression limited to a certain geographical area or culture |
| comic relief | character whose actions are comedic and break up tension |
| conceit | far fetched metaphors |
| conflict | problem that a character faces |
| connotation | emotional side of a word |
| consonance | repitition of consonants in a sequence of a |
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