literary terms pt 1
Terms
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- Allegory
- the device using character or story elements sybollicaly to represent and abstraction
- allusion
- breif referance to a commonly known historical or literary figure
- ambiguity
- an intentional creation of multiple meanings
- antecedent
- the word reffered to by a pronoun
- antithesis
- a rhetorical device contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas
- apostrophe
- a rhetorical device in which an absent person or thing is reffered to as if present
- aside
- when an actor addresses the audience
- archetype
- a recurrent pattern in bodies of literature
- assonance
- rep. of vowel sounds, not full rhyme
- atmosphere
- the emotional mood created by the entirety of a piece of lit
- ballad / common meter
- abab abcb
- blank verse
- unrimed iambic pentamater
- caesura
- a pause in poetry created by a natural speaking rhythm
- carpe diem poetry
- yield to love while you're still young
- conceit
- an elaborate, drawn out analogy
- connotation
- the emotional implications and associations a word carries
- couplet
- 2 consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
- denouement
- final unraveling of the plot