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Allegory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A story that is used to represent a more general
message about real-life issues and/or events. Typically and entire book,
novel, play, etc.
Alliteration - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A series of words or phrases that all (or almost
all) start with the same sound. The sounds are typically consonants to give
more stress to the syllable.
Allusion - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When an author makes an indirect reference to a
figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text. Many make
reference tot previous works of literature or art.
, Anachronism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when there is an (intentional) error in
the chronology or timeline of a text. This could be from a character who
appears in a different time period that when he actually lived or a
technology that appears before it was invented.
Anaphora - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a word or phrase is repeated at the
beginning of multiple sentences throughout a piece of writing. Used to
emphasize the repeated phrase and evoke strong feelings in the audience.
Anthropomorphism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when something nonhuman,
such as an animal, place, or inanimate object, behaves in a human-like
way.
Asyndeton - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When the writer leaves our conjunctions ("and,
or, but, and for") ina group of words or phrases so that the meaning of the
phrase or sentence is emphasized.
Colloquialism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Use of informal language and slang which
include words, phrases, and contractions that aren't real words
Epigraph - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When an author inserts a famous quotation,
poem, song, or other short passage or text at the beginning of a larger text.