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- Allegory
- a literary work with two or more levels of meaning; one literal level, and one or more symbolic levels.
- Alliteration
- the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
- Allusion
- a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. they are sumetimes used as a shorthand way to suggest ideas in a simple and concise manner.
- Anglo-Sacon Poetry
- the rhythmic poetry composed in Old English before AD 1100. It generally has four accented syllables and an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each line. Each line is divided in half by a caesura and the halves are linked by the alliteration of two or thee of tahe accented syllables
- Antagonist
- A character or force in conflict with the main character or protagonist in a lieterary work.
- Antithesis
- a figure of speech in which contrasting or paradoxial ideas are presented in parallel form.
- Aphorism
- a general truth or observation about life, usually stated concisely and pointedly
- apostrophe
- a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or personified quality, object, or idea. Often used in poetry and in speeches to add emotional intensity.
- Aside
- a statement delivered by an actor to an audience in such as way that other characters on stage are presumed not to hear what is said. In an aside the character reveals his or her oen private thoughts, reactions, or motovations.
- Assonance
- the repetiton of vowel swounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar consonant sounds.