Ab Ovo:A Latin expression meaning “from the egg”in literature—ab ovois a narrative technique in which a story is told from the very beginning Allegory:a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political
significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration:repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence. *Let us go forth to lead the land we love. J. F. Kennedy, Inaugural Allusion: a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events. Specific examples of allusions can be found throughout Dante’sInferno. In a passage, Dante alludes to the Greek mythological figures, Phaethon and Icarus, to express his fear as he descends from the air into the eighth circle of hell. He states: I doubt if Phaethon feared more - that time He dropped the sun-reins of his father's chariot And burned the streak of sky we see today - Or if poor Icarus did - feeling his sides Unfeathering as the wax began to melt, His father shouting: "Wrong, your course is wrong" (Canto XVII: 106- 111).
Anaphora:the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines. * We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. Churchill. Anastrophe:transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and the words they control. Anastrophe is a form of hyperbaton. *The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew. Coleridge,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Anthropomorphism:Where animals or inanimate objects are portrayed as people. (e.g. in Animal Farm the animals can talk, walk, and interact like humans). Antistrophe:repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. *In 1931, ten years ago, Japan invaded Manchukuo -- without warning. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia -- without warning. In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria -- without warning. In 1939, Hitler invaded
Czechoslovakia -- without warning. Later in 1939, Hitler invaded Poland -- without warning. And now Japan has attacked Malaya and Thailand -- and the United States --without warning. Franklin D. Roosevelt Antithesis:opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
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