Leggo

Question 0

Alliteration

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The repetition at close intervals of initial identical consonant sounds
Ex: she sells sea shells by the sea shore

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one.
Ex. Animal farm has a second meaning of Soviet Russia

Question 2

Allusion

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An indirect reference to something, usually biblical, historical, literary or mythological
Ex: don’t act like a Romeo in front of her

Question 3

Ambiguity

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An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way
Ex: foreigners are hunting dogs

Question 4

Anachronism

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Assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence
Ex: watch Merlyn wore in the once and future king

Question 5

Anaphora

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Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
Ex:“Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better”

Question 6

Angst

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A term used in existential criticism to describe both the individual and the collective anxiety-neurosis of the period following the Second World War. Feeling of anxiety and dread

Question 7

Antithesis

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A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases or clauses
Ex: Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Question 8

Apostrophe

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An address to the dead as if living; inanimate as if animate; absent as if present
Ex: O Julius Caesar thou are mighty yet; thy spirit walks abroad

Question 9

Archetype

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“Primordial images” formed by repeated experiences in the lives of our ancestors
Ex: The Hero: He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society

Question 10

Aside

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A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors onstage

Question 11

Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity
Ex: “fake” and “lake”

Question 12

Asyndeton

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A series of words separated by commas with no conjunction

Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered

Question 13

Balance

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Construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance

Question 14

Catharsis

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The process by which an unhealthy emotional state produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored
“Isn’t it pretty to think so”

Question 15

Chiasmus

Answer 15

Arrangement of repeated thoughts in pattern of xyyx

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”

Question 16

Comedy of manners

Answer 16

“Much ado about nothing”

Narrative of sophistical society

Question 17

Comic relief

Answer 17

Humorous speech and incidents in the course of serious action of a tragedy
Porter from Macbeth

Question 18

Conceit

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Unusual or surprising comparison between two very different things
Drunk compared to nosebleeds

Question 19

Concrete language

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Language that described specific, observable things

Question 20

Connotation

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Implied meaning of a word

Question 21

Consonance

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Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity

Question 22

Cumulative

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Sentence which begins with the main idea and then expands on that idea with a series of details or other particulars