Allegory - ANSWER A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red Death-Poe.
Anaphora - ANSWER Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
Antithesis - ANSWER Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism - ANSWER A focused, succin...
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Allegory - ANSWER A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red Death-Poe.
Anaphora - ANSWER Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
Antithesis - ANSWER Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism - ANSWER A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint. Franklin,
Pope, Bacon.
Apostrophe - ANSWER Addressing an absent or dead person.
Archetype - ANSWER Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are
derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
Aristotle's Unities - ANSWER Time, Place, Action
Ballad - ANSWER In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by music.
Bandwagon - ANSWER Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular
or everyone is doing it
Bathos - ANSWER insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity
Bildungsroman - ANSWER German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of education" the
coming of age novel
Blank verse - ANSWER iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs
, Caesura - ANSWER A pause in a line of poetry //
Catharsis - ANSWER an emotional purging of a character
Children's Lit - ANSWER Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible World of Pictures by
John Amos Comenius.
Cinquain - ANSWER A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-
1914) named it and invented meter.
comedy - ANSWER a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends happily
Compound Sentence - ANSWER Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
Complex Sentence - ANSWER an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses.
Compound/Complex - ANSWER one or more dependent clauses plus two or more independent clauses.
Conceit - ANSWER Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts. Donne's "flea bite to
act of love" "The Flea"
Coordinating Conjunction - ANSWER FOR, AND, BUT, OR, YET, and SO -- used to join ideas that are
similar; remember to use a comma before a conjunction in a compound sentence: Ex: Craig gets in
trouble, BUT he usually gets out of it.
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