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Literary terms set 1
Mr.Massarts AP Lit Heritage High School WA USA
Question | Answer |
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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 |