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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Lit Analysis #1

Allegory: A symbolic narrative
example: Allegory of the Cave. Enlightenment v.s. Shadows

Alliteration:The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Allusion: Metaphor, making a casual or indirect reference

Ambiguity: Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.
example: Shakespeare is a very ambiguous writer.

Anachronism: Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time.
example: He's such a Romeo(different century) with the ladies.

Analogy: Similarity or comparability.
example: The analogy of the test answers only added to the evidence that the two girls had cheated.

Analysis: Process of studying the nature of something or determining its essential features and their relations.
example: She made a proper analysis of the situation before reacting

Anaphora: Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Anecdote: A short account of a particular incident or event., especially of an interesting or amusing nature.

Antagonist: A person who is opposed to, struggles against or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
Batman v.s. Joker

Antithesis: Opposition; contrast; the direct opposite.

Aphorism: a terse saying embodying a general truth, a astute observation.

Apologia: An apology, as in defense or justification f a belief.

Apostrophe: Used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced or pronounced.

Argument: An oral disagreement, verbal opposition.

Assumption:Something taken for granted,a supposition; hypothesis.

Audience: Group of spectators at a public event; listeners or views collectively

Characterization: Portrayal; description; act of characterizing.

Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.


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