| Term | Definition |
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| Aesthetics | "Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste.""" |
| Allegory | "A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. In written narrative _____ involves a continuous parallel between two (or more) levels of meaning in a story so that its persons and events correspond to their equivalents in a system of ideas or a chain of events external to the tale.""" |
| Allusion | An indirect or passing reference to some event person place or artistic work the nature and relevance of which is not explained by the writer but relies on the reader's familiarity with what is thus mentioned. |
| Ambiguity | -A statement which can contain two or more meanings. For example when the oracle at Delphi told Croesus that if he waged war on Cyrus he would destroy a great empire Croesus thought the oracle meant his enemy's empire. In fact the empire Croesus destro |
| Analogy | -A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects when the things are otherwise entirely different. |
| Anaphora | "-repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences. ""We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France" |
| Anecdote | "-A very short tale told by a character in a literary work. In Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" ""The Miller's Tale"" and ""The Carpenter's Tale"" are examples." |
| Antagonist | the character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story |
| Anti-hero | a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. [A character who] may be bewildered ineffectual deluded or merely pathetic. |
| Aphorism | "A brief statement which expresses an observation on life usually intended as a wise observation. Benjamin Franklin's ""Poor Richard's Almanac"" contains numerous examples one of which is Drive thy business; let it not drive thee." |
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