| A | B |
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| Allegory | A work that functions on a symbolic level |
| Alliteration | A repetition of initial consonant sounds such as, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". |
| Allusion | a reference in a work, to another piece of literature . |
| Anapest | a metrical pattern of two unaccented syllables followed by one stressed syllable. UU/ |
| Antagonist | The force or character that opposes the main character, the protagonist |
| Apostrophe | Direct address in poetry |
| Aside | Words spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage |
| Aubade | A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved |
| Ballad | A simple narrative poem, often incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains gennerally with a rhyme pattern of abcb and written in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter rhythm |
| Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter verse. Many of Shakespeare's plays are written in this form. |
| Cacophony | Harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage of a litterary work |
