Literary Terms

Question 1

Concrete

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Concrete describes an actual thing or event

Question 2

Allegory

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A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words

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Allusion

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A reference to something literally, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader recognizes

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Ambiguity

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Something vague or with more than one meaning

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Anachronism

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Something that is chronically out of place

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Anacoluthon

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A sentence or construction that lacks grammatical sequence

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Abstract

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A word free from limitations or qualifications

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Anagnorisis

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When a person makes a great discovery

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Anaphora

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The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in the sentence

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Anecdote

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A short, amusing, or interesting story about a real incident or person

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Anthropomorphism

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The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object

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Anti-hero

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A central character who lacks convention heroic behavior

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Aphorism/Adage/Maxim

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A concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance/ a familiar proverb or saying/offers advice

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Aside

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A remark by a character that is meant to be heard by the audience but is unheard by the other characters

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Assonance

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The repetition of a sound or vowel near or next to each other

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Consonance

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Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions

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Euphony/Dissonance

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Opposite of cacophony

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Caesura

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Break between two words

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Canto

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One section of a poem

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Catharsis

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Releasing repressed emotions

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Chaismus

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Concepts are repeated in reverse order

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Conciet

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Excessive pride in oneself

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Dues ex Machina

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Plot twist

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Dirge

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A somber song

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End-Stop Line

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A line of poetry that ends in punctuation

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of line

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Epithet

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Expresses a quality characteristic of the person

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Epistle

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A letter

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Expletive/Pejorative/Invective

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An oath or swear word/expresses contempt or disapproval/insulting language

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Malapropism

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Mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one

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Melodrama

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An overly dramatic piece

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Metonymy/Synedoche

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A substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant/ one part is meant to represent a whole

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Ode

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A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject

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Rhyme Royal

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Seven line iambic pentameter stanza poem- Geoffrey Chaucer

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Solecism

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A grammatical state

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Terza Rima

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Has a three-line scheme -Dante Alighieri

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being true and real

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Vignette

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A brief evocation disruption, account, or episode

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Villanelle

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Nineteen line poem with five teeters followed by a quatrain