Literary Terms:
allegory: a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation.
alliteration: the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another.
allusion: a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly.
ambiguity: something that does not have a single clear meaning.
anachronism: something that is mistakenly placed in a time where it does not belong in a story, movie, etc.
analogy: a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way.
analysis: a careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do, and how they are related to each other.
anaphora: repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
anecdote: a short story about an interesting or funny event or occurrence.
antagonist: a person who opposes another person.
antithesis: the exact opposite of something or someone.
aphorism: a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea.
apologia: a defense especially of one's opinions, position, or actions.
apostrophe: the addressing of a usually absent person or a usual personified thing rhetorically.
argument: a statement or series of statements for or against something.
assumption: assuming that something is true or factual.
audience: a group of people who watch, read, or listen to something.
characterization: the act of describing the character or qualities of someone or something.
chiasmus: an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases.
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