Lit Terms

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Literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions.

Statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work

Figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction.

Concise statement expressing succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance

Word, phrase or clause to which a pronoun refers.

Statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced

A word free from limitations or qualifications

Repetition of initial sounds in successive neighboring words