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4811824430Active Voiceuses an easy to picture subject doing something0
4811831224Allegorya work of literature in which the meaning is found out side the text often representing abstract ideas as characters1
4811838495Anadiplosisusing the last word of one sentence or clause to begin the next one2
4811844139Analogya comparison between to seemingly dissimilar things3
4811850360Anaphorarepeated words at the beginning of clauses to create meaning4
4811854568AnecdoteA brief story used to illustrate a point or claim5
4811862316Antimetaboliteideas in the first half of a clause are reversed and repeated in the second half6
4811870548Antithesisa pair of balanced clauses that are linked by contrast7
4811875457Apostrophespeaking to an abstract quality an absent person or some thing as unreal as if it could answer8
4811884244Asyndetonomitting conjunctions deliberately to speed a line9
4811889764Audiencethe listener viewer or reader of a text10
4811892782Auxesiswords or clauses in ascending order11
4811896365Biasa prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or an objective way12
4811902976characterizationthe method by which the offer builds or reveals a character it can be direct or indirect13
4811911465chiasmusa pattern of inverted phrases or clauses14
4811926603Conceita metaphor that compares to very different things using a central parallel15
4811932730connotationmeanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition or denotation often positive or negative they often greatly affect the authors tone16
4811945528Deductive Logicreasoning from one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion17
4811954209Denotationa words literal meaning18
4811958083Detailswords that are used by an author to make something seem real19

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