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Lit. Terms
Literary Terms
21
English
11th Grade
09/24/2008

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Allegory
Definition
Short story with characters or setting that stand for something else
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Anaphora
Definition
Repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
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Anastrophe
Definition
Inversion of the usual or logical order of the parts of a sentence. The ship and wind example.
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Anecdote
Definition
A short story meant to prove a point or serve as an example of something.
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Antimetabole
Definition
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
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Antithesis
Definition
Balancing words of contrasting ideas or thoughts
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Aphorism
Definition
Clever statement about life. Don't wait 4 last judgment, its everyday.
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Apposition
Definition
The long one where there is usually a colon and an explanation.
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Assonance
Definition
the geek one
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Asyndeton
Definition
listing without conjunctions
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Conceit
Definition
elaborate metaphor that compare two things REALLY different
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Didactic
Definition
a form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a lesson about behavior or thinking
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Epanalepsis
Definition
Common sense is not so common. Basically ends with same thing as it started.
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Epigraph
Definition
a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of something to show the subject
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Epistrophe
Definition
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of two or more lines
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Epithet
Definition
an adjective or phrase that is commonly associated with that characteristic
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Foil
Definition
Often a funny sidekick or a villain. Ats as a contrast to the main guy
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Hypotactic
Definition
Connecting sentences to show the reason
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Juxtapose
Definition
"Injustice is a threat to justice everywhere"
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Litotes
Definition
the positive is found through the negation of the negative
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Metonymy
Definition
We requested to the crown. The crown being the royal family.
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