LIT TERMS 1-5

Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point.

• Animal Farm

Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words.

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

Allusion: a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize.

• A lot of stories in Harry Potter relate to those in the Bible.

Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation.

Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time

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