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| 8012059542 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 8012065936 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 8012067124 | allegory | Ex. "Animal Farm" George Orwell | 2 | |
| 8012073332 | alliteration | As in "she sells sea shells" | 3 | |
| 8012074962 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 4 | |
| 8012078068 | allusion | Ex. "Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark" | 5 | |
| 8012080019 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 6 | |
| 8012082769 | analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them; may explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. | 7 | |
| 8012085522 | analogy | Ex. "He that voluntarily continues ignorance is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces, as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks." | 8 | |
| 8012093615 | anaphora | One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. | 9 | |
| 8012095344 | anaphora | Ex. "They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money." | 10 | |
| 8012100900 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 11 | |
| 8012103916 | antithesis | Ex: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" | 12 | |
| 8012105194 | antithesis | Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. | 13 | |
| 8012109377 | aphorism | A statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 14 | |
| 8012113968 | 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. | 15 | |
| 8012116819 | apostrophe | Ex. William Wordsworth addresses John Milton as he writes, "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour:/England hath need of thee." | 16 | |
| 8012120442 | asyndeton | Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. | 17 | |
| 8012122393 | asyndeton | Ex. On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame. They spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding. | 18 | |
| 8012125692 | atmosphere | The emotional mood 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. | 19 | |
| 8012128845 | chiasmus | A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words. | 20 | |
| 8012130498 | chiasmus | Ex. "The land was ours before we were the land's" - Robert Frost (N, V, Pro: Pro, V, N) "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" - Lord Byron | 21 | |
| 8012133819 | colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing | 22 | |
| 8012137708 | 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. | 23 | |
| 8012140839 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. Displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made. | 24 | |
| 8012146856 | connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 25 | |
| 8067778857 | anecdote | A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. The term most frequently refers to an incident in the life of a person. | 26 |
