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| 4818134198 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 4818141110 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). | 1 | |
| 4818145612 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 2 | |
| 4818147573 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 4818149099 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 4818151957 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. l truth"] | 5 | |
| 4818153364 | Antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 6 | |
| 4818160434 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 7 | |
| 4818163129 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. | 8 | |
| 4818172697 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod 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. | 9 | |
| 4818179596 | Caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 10 | |
| 4818183905 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 11 | |
| 4818186237 | Colloquial/colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone. | 12 | |
| 4818354946 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 13 |
