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14811893266AlliterationRepetition of initial consonant sounds, good writers use a dash of it0
14811896823AllusionA casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure/event. Reference to a story that we all share in a culture. Have to assume to audience gets allusion.1
14811900200AnalogyBy emphasizing one or several points of likeness between two quite distinct subjects, With a stronger effect than similes and metaphors in clarifying.2
14811900201AnaphoraThe repetition of a words or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. --must have strong rhetorical impact3
14811907487Antithesisjuxtaposing direct opposites, creating a sharp contrast in a parallel grammatical structure4
14811917955Aphorism/Epigrama terse, witty statement of truth5
14811921878Apostrophespeaks/calls directly to an abstract or absent subject like the sun or wind6
14811925755Balanced SentenceA more specific type of parallelism; a sentence composed of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure; often by structuring a thought that counters an idea.7
14811934875ConnotaionThe implied meaning of a word or phrase8
14814981499Cumulative Sentence9
14814988388Deduction10
14814988389Denotation11

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