Semester Voc 10-12

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Ambiguity

• Anecdote

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Assonance

• Ambiguity

• Alliteration

• Allegory

a detailed description of a person's life

• Autobiograhy

• Biography

• Background

• Bibliography

the major unit of division in epics or other long narrative poems, similar in function to a stanza

• allegre

• paragraph

• ballad

• canto

a story element that appears again and again (usually character types) in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience.

• aside

• antagonist

• archetype

• analogy

a word, phrase, statement, or idea has more than one meaning or can be understood in more than one way

• ambiguity

• allegory

• anecdote

• anthology

a collection of literary pieces by various different authors

• analogy

• archetype

• alliteration

• anthology

a story about yourself, written by yourself.

• biography

• autobiography

• anthology

• archetype

a poem with no rhyme

• ballad

• verse

• blank verse

• canto

a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic.

• anthology

• alliteration

• anecdote

• allegory