English

Front 1

The same as stress. A syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors is said to be accented.

Back 1

Accent:

Front 2

A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface, often relating each literal term to a fixed, corresponding abstract idea or moral principle: usually, the ulterior meaning belong to a preexisting system of ideas or principles.

Back 2

Allegory:

Front 3

The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels may also be said to alliterate with each other inasmuch as they all have the same lack of an initial consonant sound.

Back 3

Alliteration:

Front 4

A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history.

Back 4

Allusion:

Front 5

A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable.

Back 5

Anapest:

Front 6

A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests.

Back 6

Anapestic meter:

Front 7

Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines.

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Anaphora:

Front 8

Any force in a story that is in conflict wit the protagonist. An antagonist may be another person, an aspect of the physical or social environment, or a destructive element in the protagonist’s own nature.

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Antagonist:

Front 9

A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.

Back 9

Apostrophe:

Front 10

A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Approximate rhymes occur occasionally in patterns where most of the rhymes are perfect and sometimes are used systematically in place of perfect rhyme.

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Approximate rhyme: