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lit. terms 7
literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstract | not attached to anything specific or concrete |
| active voice | verb that is an action 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 to art beauty or taste |
| allegory | narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning |
| alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of sounds |
| allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literal person, place or thing |
| anachronism | the misplacement of a person occurrence custom or idea in time |
| anadiplosis | repitio |