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| 7250408817 | Allegory | A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or a personified abstraction | 0 | |
| 7250410331 | Alliteration | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work | 1 | |
| 7250412351 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | 2 | |
| 7250413303 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas | 3 | |
| 7250415306 | Aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief | 4 | |
| 7250419019 | Appeals to authority | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field | 5 | |
| 7250423013 | Appeals to emotion | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker attempts to play upon the emotions | 6 | |
| 7250423982 | Appeals to reason | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker appeals to the use of reason | 7 | |
| 7250425558 | Apostrophe | An address or invocation to something inanimate | 8 | |
| 7274059719 | Assonance: | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words | 9 | |
| 7274061874 | Asyndeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose | 10 | |
| 7274063334 | Attitude: | The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader | 11 | |
| 7274065179 | Begging the question | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question | 12 | |
| 7274067681 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic | 13 | |
| 7274069018 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second | 14 |
