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| 14602384932 | Allegory | A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or a personified abstraction. | 0 | |
| 14602386104 | Alliteration | The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables | 1 | |
| 14602386926 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work | 2 | |
| 14602386536 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | 3 | |
| 14602388785 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas | 4 | |
| 14602390508 | Aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief | 5 | |
| 14602391457 | Appeals to, authority, logic, or emotion | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason | 6 | |
| 14602392348 | Apsotrophe | An address or invocation to something inanimate | 7 | |
| 14602393463 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words | 8 | |
| 14602394038 | Asyndeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose | 9 | |
| 14602394616 | Attitude | The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader | 10 | |
| 14602395442 | begging the question | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question | 11 | |
| 14602395865 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic | 12 | |
| 14602396386 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second | 13 |
