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| 14922095919 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 14922097754 | alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words | 1 | |
| 14922695779 | 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 | |
| 14922698368 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings between two different things or the relationship between them | 3 | |
| 14922700109 | analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 4 | |
| 14922701259 | anaphora | one of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 5 | |
| 14922704336 | anecdote | A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event | 6 | |
| 14922712819 | antecedent | the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun | 7 | |
| 14922715292 | antithesis | Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed | 8 | |
| 14922717109 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 9 | |
| 14922718902 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction | 10 | |
| 14922720907 | asyndeton | consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clause | 11 | |
| 14922721743 | atmosphere | The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work | 12 | |
| 14922723950 | chiasmus | A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words | 13 | |
| 14922725379 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 14 | |
| 14922726347 | colloquial/colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | 15 | |
| 14922728013 | coherence | a principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible | 16 | |
| 14922732866 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects | 17 | |
| 14922734671 | connotation | the nonliteral, associative meaning of a word | 18 |
