Vocab Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of sounds in two or more neighboring words.
Allegory
The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
Ad Hominem Argument
An arguments that appeals to emotion rather than reason.
Allusion
A reference to something that is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.
Ambiguity
The multiple meanings of a word, phrase, sentences, or passage.
Analogy
A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.
Anaphora
Deliberately repeating beginning clauses or phrases in sentences to create effect.
Anecdote
A short narrative account of an amusing, unusually revealing, or interesting event.
Antecedent
The word, phrase, clause referred to by a pronoun.
Antithesis
A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure.
Aphorism
A terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Asyndeton
A deliberate choice to eliminate conjunctions that would normally join phrases or clauses.
Atmosphere
The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work.
Caricature
A representation in which subject’s distinctive features are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
