Vocab1- 50 Lit Terms

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Allegory

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A story in which people, things, and actions stand for other people, things, and actions.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same consonants (usually the initial sounds of words or stressed syllables) at the start of several words or syllables in sequence or close proximity to each other

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Allusion

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A literay reference to a familiar person, place, thing, writing, or event

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Anachronism

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Detail outside of its proper time period

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Anaphora

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The regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrases or clauses.

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Analogy

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A comparison that draws parallels between two ideas or words

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Anecdote

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A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature

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Anti-hero

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A character, often a common person, who has high aspirations but lacks the ability to achieve those goals

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Antithesis

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Balancing or contrasting of one word or phrase against another

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Antonym

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A word whose meaning is the opposite of a selected word

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Apostrophe

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someone (usually absent) some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present

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Archetype

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An image that reoccurs throughout literature or culture giving it a built-in meaning

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Aside

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A set of lines spoken in drama spoken by a character to the audience or to another character on stage

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring syllables, but the consonants can differ

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Asyndeton

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A style which conjunctions are omitted usually producing a fast-paced,more rapid prose

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Caesura

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A pause or breathing-place about the middle of a metrical line, generally indicated by a pause in the sense

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Caricature

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a depiction in which a character's characteristics or features are so deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd.

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Character

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Any peron or being in a literary work.

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Round (Character)

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Shows varied and contradictory traits

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Flat (Character)

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Reveals only one trait