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Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
Ex. You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife |
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Allusion is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. |
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Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find. |
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| One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary |
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| a figure of speech that consists of the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous one. |
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| the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in “action, not words” or “they promised freedom and provided slavery”) |
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The Apostrophe Literary Term is a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply. |
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- of or like an anecdote
- full of anecdotes
- based on personal experience or reported observations unverified by controlled experiments anecdotal evidence
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| a message that departs from the main subject |
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Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Ex. "The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots." |
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| The dominant tone or mood of a work of art. |
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| The readership for printed matter, as for a book |
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| Definition: An individual's account of their life. |
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| A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain. |
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| A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment. An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice. A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others. |
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| An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another..... |
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| Verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter |
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The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
A story, picture, or play employing such representation. |
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the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of
the verb is performing the action or causing the
happening denoted by the verb; "`The boy threw the ball'
uses the active voice" |
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| marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated; an archaic manner; an archaic notion |
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