Vocab

1. Abstraction - an idea that isn't physical or concrete

2. Allegory - a work of art or literature that goes beyond its literal meaning, where the characters or places represent bigger concepts, often to make a political or moral commentary (LOTF is an allegory)

3. Alliteration - when two or more words (next to each other or close) start with the same letter/sound

4. Allusion - a reference (sometimes indirect) to something (often Shakespeare, the Bible, or Greek mythology in western canon)

5. Ambivalence - simultaneous and contradicting attitudes toward a subject matter, which often leads to uncertainty

6. Analogy: see below

7. Analogical comparison - comparing two vastly different things together (either as an example or as an exaggeration). Typically, there will be multiple points of comparison.

8. Anecdote - a short story about a real incident (often used to highlight the subject at hand)

9. Antecedent - the word that a pronoun refers to (i.e. the word the pronoun "replaces"); OR an event that took place previously to influence the present situation

10. Anticlimax - a sudden change from something serious to something absurd or unimportant