vocab 1-25 lit

ad misericordiam

appeal to audience sympathy to persuade with stories than to logix or reason. Logical fallacy through pity or guilt

allegory

expression using symbolic charactarcters or actions about the human conduct and experience

alliteration

repition of consonant at beginning of words

allusion

reference to previous works

ambiguity

quality of being intentionally unclear

anachronism

element in a story out of its time frame - usually for humor

anadiplosis

repeating the last word of clause at beginning of next clause

analogy

comparison of smth that cannot be put into \wprds using smth familiar

analysis

process od examining literary work

anecdote

short and personal story to emphasize a point

antagonist

villian

antecedent

word or phrase to which a pronoun refers

anticlimax

an often disappointing, sudden end to an inteense situation

antihero

protagonsis who does action but does not embody classic hero characteristics

antithesis

concept directly opposed to previously presented idea

anapest

metrical foot of poetry consistinf of two unaccented sylables followed by one accented sylabble

anaphora

repeititon of opening words or phrase in a series of lines

anthropomorphism

giving human quality

aphorism

terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle

apostrophe

‘

apotheosis

elevating someone to level of a god

archetype

character, situation or symbol that us familiary to all p;eople bc commonly used

aside

short speech or remark by actor to audience

assonance

repeated use of a vowel word

asyndeton

writing style tghat omits conjunctions, ex: an empty stream, a ggreat silence