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| 4971474243 | Allegory | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning - for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction lie hope or freedom | 0 | |
| 4971511229 | Alliteration | the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in tow or more neighboring words - can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage | 1 | |
| 4971526778 | Allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known such as an event, book, myth, place or work place - can be historically, literacy, religious, topical or mythical | 2 | |
| 4971570836 | Ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence or passage | 3 | |
| 4971594509 | Analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them - it can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar | 4 | |
| 4971621055 | 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 | 5 | |
| 4971629213 | Anecdote | a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode of event - the term refers to an incident in the life of a person | 6 | |
| 4971636063 | Antecedent | the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun - | 7 | |
| 4971667622 | Antithesis | figure of balance in which tow contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed - a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses or sentence - it creates a definite and systematic relationship between idea | 8 | |
| 4971786627 | Aphorism | a terse statement of know authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle - a memorable summation of the author's point | 9 | |
| 4971794653 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such a liberty or love - it's addresses to someone or something that cannot answer | 10 | |
| 4971841011 | Asyndeton | consists of omitting conjugations between words, phrases, or clauses - this can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account - if more empathetic that if a final conjunction were used | 11 | |
| 4971886631 | Atmosphere | the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literacy work, established partly by the author's choice of objects that are described - TONE CREATES MOOD | 12 | |
| 4971936555 | Chiasmus | is a figure speech in which two speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax but reverse the order of the analogous words | 13 | |
| 4972067540 | Clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb - an independent or main clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence | 14 | |
| 4972069570 | Colloquial | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing - includes local or regional dialects | 15 | |
| 4972099935 | 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 - words or phrases within the sentence | 16 | |
| 4972114620 | 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 | 17 | |
| 4972124761 | Connotation | the nonliteral, associative meaning of the word, the implied and suggested meaning | 18 | |
| 4972130012 | Anadiplosis | one term and then the same separated by a comma | 19 |
