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| 9962361680 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 9962361681 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | 1 | |
| 10554455892 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion. | 2 | |
| 10554458058 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 10554459537 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 10554461018 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 5 | |
| 10554462026 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 6 | |
| 10554465469 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
| 10554465470 | Atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 8 | |
| 10554466729 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 9 |
