4773013357 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
4773013992 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
4773014491 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 2 | |
4773014492 | Ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language. | 3 | |
4773014493 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 4 | |
4773015075 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 5 | |
4773015076 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another. | 6 | |
4773016829 | Antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins" | 7 | |
4773016830 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 8 | |
4773016831 | Apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 9 | |
4773017654 | Atmosphere | 10 | ||
4773017655 | Caricature | 11 | ||
4773018160 | Clause | 12 |
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