English Glossary

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

is a story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

a sound device commonly used in poetry and occasionally in prose that involves the repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

a brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place, event, or to another literary work or passage; 4 types: historical (he met his waterloo), mythological (to have an Achilles’ heel) literary (Steinbeck title Of Mice and Men) biblical (a “Daniel come to Judgment”)

Question 4

Anadiplosis

Answer 4

the repetition of the final word(s) of a sentence at the beginning of the next. consider Yoda’s words as an example: “Fear leads to anger, Anger leads to hate, Hate leads to suffering.”