Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Lit Terms 1-5

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

Well let me start with a familiar piece we read last semester...ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE!
When we did the sonnets on the cave and so on we looked at the further message into the Allegory itself. READ INTO THINGS! Many times in literature authors right with a central focal message they want you to see in the end.




2. Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.



BASICALLY REPEATING A LETTER OR SOUND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!^^

3. Ambiguity
~Something uncertain as to interpretation!~

Just like you might see a face...I see a guy playing a saxophone~! There is nothing on the picture that specifies the image we are looking for therefore it is open to interpretation. Being as it is open to interpretation there for illustrating ambiguity!

4. Anachronism
A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.



MADE ME THINK OF THE POWER PUFF DAYS! Full of ANACHRONISMS!! Basically the...WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? DIDN'T YOU GO EXTINCT?! :O

5. Analogy
Comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them!
Great lesson!!! ^^ I couldn't really understand at the beginning but this video= amazingness! ha

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