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| 4802257995 | AD Hominem | "Against the man;" attacking the arguer rather than the argument or issue. Example: a politician degraded another politician during a political campaign when asked about a specific policy. | 0 | |
| 4802257996 | Allegory | The device or using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. And some allegories, for example, an author made into in the characters to personify and abstraction like hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. Example: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by CS Lewis is a religious allegory with Aslan as Christ and Edmond as Judas. | 1 | |
| 4802289533 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more at a neighboring words. The use of alliteration can reinforce meeting, unify ideas, supply musical sound, and/or create a particular mood in a passage. Example: I saw Sally selling seashells by the seashore. | 2 | |
| 4802289534 | Allusion | Hey direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or a work of art. Allusions can be his store cool, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. Example: I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio's. | 3 | |
| 4802289535 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. Any event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. Example: each of us saw her duck. | 4 | |
| 4802289536 | Anadiplosis | Hey kind of repetition in which the last word or phrase of one sentence or line of poetry is repeated at the beginning of the next line. Example: "......... you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love" ( The Bible, II Peter 1:5 - 7) | 5 | |
| 4802601263 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. Example: I feel like a fish out of water. | 6 | |
| 4802601264 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences/lines of poetry in a row. Example: "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd ..." | 7 | |
| 4802601265 | Anastrophe | A literary technique and what is the normal order of words is reversed and in order to achieve a particular affect or emphasis or meter. Example: "Much you have to learn." | 8 | |
| 4802601266 | Anecdote | A brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often showing the character of an individual. Example: At the beginning of a speech about fire safety, the speaker tells a short cautionary tale about a serious injury that occurred as a result of not following protocol. | 9 |
