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| 10722189216 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 10722189217 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 10722189218 | allegory | Ex. "Animal Farm" George Orwell | 2 | |
| 10722189219 | alliteration | As in "she sells sea shells" | 3 | |
| 10722189220 | 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 | |
| 10722189221 | allusion | Ex. "Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark" | 5 | |
| 10722189222 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 6 | |
| 10722189223 | 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 | |
| 10722189224 | 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 | |
| 10722189225 | 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 | |
| 10722189226 | anaphora | Ex. "They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money." | 10 | |
| 10722189227 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 11 | |
| 10722189228 | antithesis | Ex: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" | 12 | |
| 10722189229 | 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 | |
| 10722189230 | aphorism | A statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 14 | |
| 10722189231 | 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 | |
| 10722189232 | apostrophe | Ex. William Wordsworth addresses John Milton as he writes, "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour:/England hath need of thee." | 16 | |
| 10722189233 | asyndeton | Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. | 17 | |
| 10722189234 | asyndeton | Ex. On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame. They spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding. | 18 | |
| 10722189235 | 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 |
