11/30 Stubbs Lit Quiz
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accent | the stress given a syllable in pronunciation |
| allegory | a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds within a line of poetry |
| allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history |
| ambiguity | language that gives more than one meaning, that leaves uncertainty as to meaning, alternate meanings to words, and that gives several streams of thought from the same word |
| ambivalence | present when people have a variety attitudes or emotions toward the same things or person at the same time |
| analogy | a comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects; particularly a method of exposition by which one unfamiliar object or idea is explained by comparing it in certain of its similarities with other objects or ideas more familiar |
| anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event which differs from a short story in that it lacks complicated plot and is unified in its presentation of time and place elements in its relation of a single episode. |
| antagonist | the character in fiction who stands directly opposed to the protagonist; doesn't need to be a villain |
| anti-hero | a graceless, inept, sometimes stupid or dishonest protagonist who is opposite of a traditional hero |
| antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; a balance of one term against another for impressiveness and emphasis |
| Apollonian | when applied to literature, it stands for reason, order, culture, and moral rectitude |
| apocalyptic | literature concerned with predicting the ultimate destiny of the world, imminent catastrophe, and final judgment on mankind |
| apostrophe | figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), some abstract quality, or non-existent personage is directly addressed as though alive and capable of understanding |
| archetype | an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore, and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotions in the reader since it awakens a primordial image in the unconscious memory and thus calls into play illogical but strong responses |
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