Vocab 1-10

Question 0

Alliteration

Answer 0

The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables.

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

A prose or poetic narrator ice in which the characteristics, behavior,and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Anapestic

Answer 3

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed.

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

The regular religion of the same word or phase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.

Question 5

Anecdote

Answer 5

A brief story told by a character in a piece of literature.

Question 6

Antagonist

Answer 6

Any force that is in opposition to the main character, or protagonist.

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas.

Question 8

Apostrophe

Answer 8

An address or invocation to something that is inanimate—such as an angry lover who might scream at the ocean in his or her despair.

Question 9

Archetype

Answer 9

Recurrent designs, pattern of action, character types, themes or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature