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english lit. 1
english vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything 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 | narrative in which literak meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. ex animal farm is an allegory for the russian revolution )napoleon=stalin, animal farm =russia |
| alliteration | repition 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 | misplacement of a person occurence custom or idea in time. ex julius caesar a character mentions a watch but watches were not invented yet |
| anadiplosis | repitition of a word at the end of a phrase, clause, sentence ex. i ran to the store the store had plenty of oranges for me |
| analogy | comparision between two things that are otherwise unlike. ofthen analogies draw a comparision between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize ex trying to get a confessin out of the suspect was like pulling teeth |
| anaphora | repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of succesive phrases and sentences |
| antagonist | person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protaginist's accomplishment of his goal |
| anecdote | a brief narration of an event 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 | protaginist who is not a good person |
| antimetable | reversing 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 time it was the worst of times |
| aporia | expression of doubt (often feigned)by which speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, do |
| aposiopesis | sudden breaking off of a sppech, usually due to excitement (either positive or negative) |
| apostrophe | directly addresing either a dead person or an inanimate object |
| appeals | methods authors use to gain favor in rhetoric, or to establish tone |
| pathos/emonitional appeals | appeals to audience's feelinng and sympathies |
| logos/logical appeals | appeals to audience's feeling and |
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