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| 9228247111 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself; characters have meanings outside themselves; |  | 0 |
| 9228247112 | Anecdote | A brief story told in order to make a larger point; the event/incident itself helps speaker promote a related idea |  | 1 |
| 9228247113 | Aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. |  | 2 |
| 9228247114 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. |  | 3 |
| 9228247116 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |  | 4 |
| 9228247117 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences |  | 5 |
| 9228247118 | Antithesis | The direct opposite, a sharp contrast (ex: Whereas he was fractious, I was calm). |  | 6 |
| 9228247119 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply (ex: Oh, love, where have you gone?) |  | 7 |
| 9228247121 | Appeal to pathos | When a writer appeals to readers' emotions to excite and involve them in an argument. |  | 8 |
| 9228247122 | Appeal to logos | Using logic or facts to appeal to audience |  | 9 |
| 9228247123 | Appeal to ethos | All about the speaker. Appeal to Credibility. |  | 10 |
| 9228247124 | Anachronism | Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period |  | 11 |
| 9228247125 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way |  | 12 |
| 9228247127 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity |  | 13 |
| 9228247129 | appositive | A noun phrase that modifies the noun set next to it., A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing (ex: My student, Sidney, makes me want to adopt a child). |  | 14 |
