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| 10500558232 | 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 | |
| 10500564030 | Alliteration | The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables. |  | 1 |
| 10500573490 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work. | 2 | |
| 10500584389 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same words of phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. |  | 3 |
| 10500594358 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas |  | 4 |
| 10500630041 | Aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief |  | 5 |
| 10500648577 | Appeals to...authority, emotion, logic | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason |  | 6 |
| 10500654090 | Apostrophe | An address or invocation to something inanimate | 7 | |
| 10500661966 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words |  | 8 |
| 10500666385 | Asyndeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose |  | 9 |
| 10500673519 | 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 |  | 10 |
| 10500682602 | Begging the question | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question of the conflict, evades or ignores the real question | 11 | |
| 10500685366 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic | 12 | |
| 10500686853 | 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 |  | 13 |
| 10500693614 | Colloquial | A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area |  | 14 |
