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Honors 1
Question | Answer |
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allegory | story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings. |
alliteration | repetition of the initial sounds of several words |
allusion | reference in one literary work to a person, place, event, or other literary work |
ambiguity | a statement which can contain two or more meanings |
analogue | a comparison between two similar things; in literature, a work which resembles another either fully or in part |
anapest | two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable forming the pattern for a line or poem |
anecdote | a very short tale told by a character in a literary work |
antagonist | a person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work |
aphorism | a brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation |
apostrophe | a figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman |
aside | a device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play |
assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in a literary work |
autobiography | the story of a person's life written by him or herself |
ballad | a story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung |
biography | the story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work |
blank verse | a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
cacophony/euphony | cacophony: unpleasant combination of sounds euphony: pleasant combination of sounds |
caesura | a pause within a line of poetry which may or may not affect the metrical count, usually indicated by the symbol // |
canto | subdivision of an epic poem like in the "Divine Comedy" |
carpe diem | Latin for "seize the day" |