Analyzing and Interpreting Literature C 2024

allegory --The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. allusion --passing or casual reference referring to something anagnorisis --recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to knowledge anagram --a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase analogy --a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: anapest --A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable 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 of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical. anthropomorphism --the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits anticlimax --an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected. antithesis --the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in "Give me liberty or give me death." aphorism --a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord Acton). aposiopesis --a sudden breaking off in the midst of a sentence, as if from inability or unwillingness to proceed. apostrophe --a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as "O Death, where is thy sting?" archetype --the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype. assonance --rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence. bilungsroman --a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. blank verse --unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. burlesque --an artistic composition, esp. literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity