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| 14546106651 | allegory | a literary work that suggests a hidden meaning via the use of metaphoric examples; this meaning of a greater, often abstract, moral or political concept is conveyed with the aid of more material objects or ideas being used as an example | 0 | |
| 14546106652 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words | 1 | |
| 14546107058 | allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, a book, a myth, place, or work of art | 2 | |
| 14546110052 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 3 | |
| 14546110056 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 14546114140 | anaphora | repetition of the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 5 | |
| 14546114141 | anecdote | a brief narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event | 6 | |
| 14546193918 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 7 | |
| 14546195763 | 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 | 8 | |
| 14546200780 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 9 | |
| 14546201663 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | 10 | |
| 14546202396 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate words, phrases, or clauses | 11 | |
| 14546206337 | 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 | 12 | |
| 14546213655 | chiasmus | from the Greek word for "criss-cross", a figure of speech in which two successive clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of analogous words | 13 | |
| 14546234826 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 14 | |
| 14546236711 | coloquialism | the use of slang or an informal expression in speech or writing, giving a work a conversational or familiar tone | 15 | |
| 14546284130 | coherence | a principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible | 16 | |
| 14546285271 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 17 | |
| 14546290448 | connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 18 |
