A-B terms Flashcards
An imagined event or series of events; an event may be verbal as well as physical, so that saying something or telling a story within the story may be an event
Action
As in metaphor, one thing (usually nonrational, abstract, religious) is implicitly spoken of in terms of something concrete, but in an allegory the comparison is extended to include an entire work or large portion of work
Allegory
The repitition of initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words. For example, “while I nodded, nearly napping”
Alliteration
The use of a word or expression to mean more than one thing
Ambiguity
A comparison based on certain resemblances between things that are otherwise unlike
Analogy
A neutral term for a character who opposes the leading male or female character
Antagonist
A leading character who is not, like a hero, perfect or even outstanding, but is rather ordinary and representative of the average person
Antihero
A plot or character that recurs in cultural or cross-cultural myths, such as “the quest” or “descent into the underworld”
Archetype
The repitition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings. For example, “the death of the poet was kept from his poems”
Assonance
Someone other than the reader, a character within the fiction, to whom the story or “speech” is addressed
Auditor
Distinct from plot time and reader time, authorial time denotes the influence that the time in which the author was writing had upon the conception and style of the text
Authorial time
The verse from most like everyday human speech; blank verse consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. Many of Shakespeare’s plays are in blank verse
Blank verse
A reference, whether explicit or implicit, to history, the Bible, myth, literature, painting, music, and so on, that suggests the meaning or generalized implication of details in the story, poem, or play
Allusion
