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Literary terms 1
first 10 literary terms : allegory - antithesis
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English
9th Grade
12/08/2009

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Allegory
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a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself

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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words
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Allusion
Definition
a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art
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Amplification
Definition

use of bare expressions, likely to be ignored or misunderstood by a hearer or reader because of the bluntness

 

saying this louder

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Anagram
Definition
a word or phrase made by transposing the letters
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Analogy
Definition

the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship

 

using like or as

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Anaphora
Definition
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs.
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anastrophe
Definition

Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words

 

ex: to market went she

 

shakespeare uses it A LOT

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anthropomorphism
Definition
used with God or gods
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antithesis
Definition
opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
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