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| 4971243991 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 4971252299 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | 1 | |
| 4971259923 | Allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 2 | |
| 4971320662 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 4971330673 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 4 | |
| 4971339875 | antecedent | The word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun | 5 | |
| 4971358053 | antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 6 | |
| 4971372897 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 7 | |
| 4971380992 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such as liberty or love | 8 | |
| 4971387743 | atmosphere | the emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the authors choice of objects that are described | 9 | |
| 4971414570 | caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect. | 10 | |
| 4971421629 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 11 | |
| 4971428931 | colloquial/ colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | 12 | |
| 4971443176 | conceit | A fanciful expression usually in the form of an extended metaphor or uprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects | 13 | |
| 4971456179 | connotation | The non literal associative meaning of a word, implied, suggested meaning | 14 |
