Wisdom Lit Vocab
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- didactic
- literature meant to instruct
- proverb
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact or experience taken as true by many people
- anecdote
- a short account of an interesting or humorous incident
- alliteration
- repetition of consonant sounds
- oral tradition
- pass down from one generation to another by word of mouth
- rhyme
- words that are similar is sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
- parable
- a short allegory that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life
- parallelism
- using identical or equivalent syntactic construction in corresponding clauses or phrases
- aphorism
- a brief, tersely phrased (to the point) statement of truth or opinion
- metaphor
- comparison between two unlike items without using like or as
- maxim
- a succinct formulation of a fundamental principle, general truth, or rule of conduct.
- axiom
- a self-evident or universally recognized truth; accepted as truth without proof as a basis for argument