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| 2483751825 | allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 0 | |
| 2483755290 | alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables | 1 | |
| 2483757877 | allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 2 | |
| 2483759707 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 3 | |
| 2483763222 | antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 4 | |
| 2483766124 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 5 | |
| 2483767339 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 6 | |
| 2483769600 | appeal to authority | A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution. | 7 | |
| 2483774536 | appeal to emotion | Particular emotional appeal used for distraction, usually because of a lack of logic or evidence | 8 | |
| 2483780036 | appeal to logic | A rhetorical strategy where the argument is made by presenting facts that lead the audience to a specific conclusion | 9 | |
| 2483791271 | assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a group of words close together. | 10 | |
| 2483795050 | asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. | 11 | |
| 2483801392 | attitude | tone; the author's or narrator's tone | 12 | |
| 2489795483 | begging the question | a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claimed is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself | 13 |
