Lit Terms (Sylvie and Lily)

A word free from limitations or qualifications( "best," "all," "unique," "perfect!")

• Aphorism

• Absolute

• Climax

• Bathos

A familiar proverb or wise saying

• Adage

• Apostrophe

• Asyndeton

• Allegory

An argument attacking an imdividual's character character rather than his or her position on an issue

• Anaphora

• conceit

• Ad Hominem Argument

• Antihesis

A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstraction

• Analogy

• Allegory

• Cliche

• Balanced Sentence

The repition of initial sounds in sucessive or neighboring words

• Asyndeton

• Aphorism

• Colloquialism

• Alliteration

A reference to something literary, mythological, or hidtorical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

• Allusion

• Chiasmus

• Archetype

• Bathos

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

• Ad hominem argument

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Anecdote

The repition of words or phases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences

• Complex Sentence

• Balanced Sentence

• Anaphora

• Aphorism

A breif narrative that focuses on a particukarvincident or event

• Anecdote

• Absolute

• Antithesis

• Bathos

The word, phrase, or clause, to which a pronound refers

• Bathos

• Antecedent

• Archetype

• Complex Sentence