E2: Vocabulary #1

Remember to give an example and explain why it's a good example in the sentence for each term.

• Allegory: symbolic narrative (appears to tell one story while telling another one at the same time)
• Alliteration: two or more words in a grouping with the same opening sound
• Allusion: a historical or cultural reference to something outside the piece of literature 
• Ambiguity: uncertainty of intended meaning
• Analogy: a comparison of two things
• Antagonist: the opponent of the protagonist
• Anti-hero: Never overcomes inner demons and is, instead, destroyed by them; can be an outlaw or villain to society, but is sympathetic to the audience; cynical or wounded
• Archetypes: (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.
• Atmosphere: mood, ambience, or emotional tone of a text
• Autobiography: the facts of the author’s life