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9th Grade CDT Literary Terms Review
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Literature
9th Grade
04/28/2015

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Term
Allegory
Definition
a story in which characters, events,
and places stand for ideas, qualities, or other
events. The overall purpose is to teach a moral
lesson.
Term
Alliteration
Definition
the repetition of the same
consonant sound at the beginning of a word.
Example: the repetition of b sounds in Keats's
"beaded bubbles winking at the brim" ("Ode to a
Nightingale") or Coleridge's "five miles
meandering in a mazy motion ("Kubla Khan").
Term
Allusion
Definition
a reference to a well-known character,
place, or situation from history, music, art, or
another work of literature. The writer assumes
the reader will recognize the reference.
Term
Antonym
Definition
a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g., bad and good ).
Term
Author's Purpose
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