Literary terms set 1 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Allegory | Anything used as a symbol |
| Allusion | Incidental mention of something |
| Ambiguity | The possibbility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways |
| Anaphora | The use of a word that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse |
| Antithesis | contrast |
| Aphorism | A small saying embodying a general truth |
| apostrophe | A symbol indicating one or more letters have been replaced |
| assonance | Rhyme in which the same vowel is used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of rhyming words |
| Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions |
| Clause | A syntatic construction containg a subject and assertion forming a part of a sentence |
| Cliché | A sterotyped expression |
| Conceit | An elaborate metaphor |
| Connotation | the secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its primary meaning |
| Couplet | A pair of sequenced lines of verse |
| Diction | Style of writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Didactic | teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson |
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