Lit Terms 1-10

Question 1

a major division in a play similar to a chapter in a book.

Answer 1

Act

Question 2

a prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or personified abstraction

Answer 2

Allegory

Question 3

the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, heard in closely proximate stressed syllables.

Answer 3

Alliteration

Question 4

a reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place.

Answer 4

Allusion

Question 5

Purposeful multiple meanings as in pun and double entendre

Answer 5

Ambiguity

Question 6

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed:
-/-v/v-/–/.

Answer 6

Anapestic

Question 7

repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next

Answer 7

Anadiplosis

Question 8

Extended comparison of similar things

Answer 8

Analogy

Question 9

the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.

Answer 9

Anaphora

Question 10

a brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature.

Answer 10

Anecdote