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| 7296476940 | allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities throughout the entire story | 0 | |
| 7296479105 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 7296480321 | allusion | reference to something or someone that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, etc. an indirect reference | 2 | |
| 7296483055 | ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more different (and sometimes conflicting) meanings in a work. it can be interpreted in more than one way- it is vague when not done on purpose | 3 | |
| 7296490758 | analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 7296492008 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences | 5 | |
| 7296495133 | anastrophe | inversion of the normal/logical order of the parts of a sentence | 6 | |
| 7296497501 | anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point | 7 | |
| 7296498707 | antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero | 8 | |
| 7296501244 | antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 9 | |
| 7296504819 | antithesis | balancing words, phrases or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 10 | |
| 7296509199 | antihero | central character who lacks all the qualities normally associated with heroes | 11 | |
| 7296513656 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 12 | |
| 7296515824 | aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or a principle or generally accepted truth | 13 |
