Vocab #1-20

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Using symbolism to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

The repetition of sounds

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

A direct or indirect reference to common knowledge.

Question 4

Ambiguity

Answer 4

Multiple meanings

Question 5

Anadiplosis

Answer 5

Repetition of a key word

Question 6

Analogy

Answer 6

Comparing the similarity(ies) of two different things or the relationship between them

Question 7

Anapestic

Answer 7

A foot in poetry with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

Question 8

Anaphora

Answer 8

Rhetorical device of repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences

Question 9

Anathema

Answer 9

A thing or person cured or damned

Question 10

Antecedent

Answer 10

The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun

Question 11

Anticlimax

Answer 11

A sequence of ideas that abruptly diminish in dignity at the end of a sentence

Question 12

Antimetabole

Answer 12

Repeating words in reverse order

Question 13

Antithesis

Answer 13

A contrast or opposition of thoughts\

Question 14

Aphorism

Answer 14

A concise statement that expresses a general truth or a moral principle

Question 15

Apostrophe

Answer 15

A figure of speech that directly addresses something that isn’t there

Question 16

Archetype

Answer 16

Prototype, the original pattern/mold

Question 17

Assonance

Answer 17

The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

Question 18

Asyndeton

Answer 18

Leaving out the usual conjunction

Question 19

Atmosphere

Answer 19

The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work

Question 20

Attitude

Answer 20

The position or posture assumed in connection with an action