Lit Terms 1-5

ALLEGORY: A tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions or setting represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses moral symbols to state a point.

 

ALLITERATION: The repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants in a group of words.

 

 



 

 

ALLUSION: A reference to a person, a place, an event or literary work that writer expects a reader to recongnize.

 

 



 

AMBIGUITY: Something uncertain as to interpretation.

 



 

ANACHRONISM: Something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time.