English 30-2 PART B

Abstract

• Words or word groups that appeal to the senses.
• A quality that evokes pity or sadness.
• Something that cannot be perceived by the senses.
• Something that is suggested and assumed to be understood.

Allegory

• A story that has a second meaning beneath the obvious one.
• An arrival at a conclusion through evidence.
• An inquiry that does not require an answer since it is obvious.
• Anything that signifies something other than what it is.

Alliteration

• A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
• Emotional associations created by words.
• The repetition of identical consonant sounds.
• A repetition of vowel sounds at the ends of words.

Allusion

• A person's story told by him or herself.
• A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.
• The action of showing something to be right or reasonable.
• A reference to something from literature, history, mythology or the Bible.

Analogy

• Something that is suggested and assumed to be understood.
• A statement that explains or qualifies the main idea.
• A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.
• A comparison of two similar things where the familiar is used to explain the unfamiliar.

Anecdote

• A short, often amusing narrative.
• An overused expression.
• The one who tells the story.
• The state of knowing everything.

Antagonist

• Two lines of poetry that rhyme.
• The main character in a literary work.
• The one who tells the story.
• The force that opposes the main character.

Antecedent Action

• The closing speech at the end of a play.
• An event, circumstance, etc, that happens before another.
• The force that opposes the main character.
• Words or word groups that appeal to the senses.

Archaic language

• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
• Words that are no longer in everyday use or have lost a particular meaning in current usage.
• Nonstandard language made up of certain current terms.
• Words placed side by side that seem contradictory in meaning.

Archetype

• A person's story told by him or herself.
• A perfect example or model of someone or something.
• The state of knowing everything.
• The art of persuasive speaking or writing.