Monday, October 19, 2009

Literary Terms to Know

Alliteration: using the same consonant over and over again

Anacoluthon: a lack of grammatical sequence, a change in the grammatical construction within the sentence

Anadiplosis: the rhetorical repetition of one or several words "doubling back"

*Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successful phrases, clauses, or lines.

Anastrophe: transposition of normal word order (yet never a breeze up blew)

Antistrophe: repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successful phrases.

Antithesis: opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.

Aporia: expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what they think, say, or do.

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