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| 4821494682 | allegory | a narrative in which the characters, events, and setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance; often a universal symbol | 0 | |
| 4821496325 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 1 | |
| 4821498278 | anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 2 | |
| 4821499734 | anaphora | the regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | 3 | |
| 4821499735 | anecdote | a short narrative detailing an event | 4 | |
| 4821502133 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas | 5 | |
| 4821529422 | aphorism | a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief | 6 | |
| 4821529423 | apostrophe | an address or invocation to something inanimate | 7 | |
| 4821530436 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words | 8 | |
| 4821530437 | begging the question | an argumentative ploy where the arguer side steps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question | 9 | |
| 4821531983 | chiasmus | a figure of speech and generally a structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second | 10 | |
| 4821531984 | coherence | a principale demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible | 11 | |
| 4821531985 | conceit | a comparison of two unlikely things that is draw out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem | 12 | |
| 4821533808 | consonance | the repetition of two or more consonants with a chance in intervening vowels | 13 | |
| 4821536068 | critique | an assessment or analysis or something such as a passage of writing for determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre | 14 |
