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Allegory

Allegory. A form of extended metaphor in which people, things, and events have another meaning outside of the work, sometimes symbolic. An example is Animal Farm. Alliteration.

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Allegory

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  1. Allegory • A form of extended metaphor in which people, things, and events have another meaning outside of the work, sometimes symbolic. • An example is Animal Farm.

  2. Alliteration • Repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. “She sells sea shells.” In a passage, it can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, and/or supply a musical sound.

  3. Allusion • A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. • EX: In The Crucible John Proctor calls John Hale Pontius Pilate.

  4. Ambiguity • Multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible. • Example from Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:” • “And all the air a solemn stillness holds” • All the air holds a stillness. • A stillness hold the air.

  5. Analogy • An analogy is comparable to metaphor and simile in that it shows how two different things are similar, but it’s a bit more complex. Rather than a figure of speech, an analogy is more of a logical argument. The presenter of an analogy will often demonstrate how two things are alike by pointing out shared characteristics, with the goal of showing that if two things are similar in some ways, they are similar in other ways as well.

  6. EXAMPLE: • “The operation of a computer presents an interesting analogy to the working of the brain."

  7. Anaphora • A device of repetition, in which the same expression, word, or words, are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. • EX: As I ebb’d with the ocean of life, • As I wended the shores I know, • As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok.

  8. Anecdote • A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. In the literary sense, anecdotes most frequently refer to an incident in the life of an important person and should lay claim to an element of truth. • EX: Recall the anecdote of George Washington, that he could not tell a lie when he cut down the cherry tree.

  9. Antithesis • A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is a balancing of one term against another. • EX: "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

  10. Apostrophe • A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. • EX: “Death, be not proud…”

  11. Assonance • Repetition of vowel sounds within one line or lines of poetry. • EX: “The bows glided down, and the coast Blackened with birds took a last look At his thrashing hair and whale-blue eye”

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