Lit Terms 1

What is the term for a concept or value that cannot be seen and is often compared to something concrete by writers?

• Allegory

• Abstraction

• Alliteration

• Analogy

What do we call one of the main divisions of a play or opera?

• Act

• Scene

• Chapter

• Verse

Which literary device involves characters, objects, or actions representing abstractions, creating a story within a story?

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Anagram

• Analogy

What is the repetition of a beginning consonant sound called?

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Analogy

• Ambiguity

What is a reference to something outside of the specific text, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical, called?

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Anachronism

• Anagram

Which term describes a word, phrase, or statement that contains more than one meaning?

• Analogy

• Ambiguity

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

What is the term for a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially something old-fashioned?

• Anachronism

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Analogy

What do you call a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase?

• Anaphora

• Anagram

• Alliteration

• Analogy

Which literary device is a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way?

• Analogy

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Anachronism

What is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences called?

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Analogy

• Ambiguity