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Ali literary terms
Literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Not attched to anything specific or concrete |
| Active voice | Verb that is an action(as opposed to a voice) Ex: jane sweeps the floor. |
| ad hominem | An arguement attacking an individuals character rather than the issue. |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty, and taste |
| allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. Ex:animal farm for the russian revolution. |
| alliteration | repition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words. |
| Allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary persion, place, or event |
| anachronism | The misplacement of a person, occurence,custom or idea in time. |