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| 4892106775 | Allegory | Online Example: "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis (Aslan = Christ) (Edmund = Judas) examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (Everyone has a conscience) | 0 | |
| 4892106776 | Alliteration | Online Example: Becky's Beagle Barked and Bayed, Becoming Bothersome for Billy examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Envious Emmy Exercises Energetically. | 1 | |
| 4892106777 | Allusion | Online Example: "When she had lost her job, she acted like a scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn't necessary" (referring to "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens) examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: He is the reincarnation of Christ Jesus. | 2 | |
| 4892567377 | Anaphora | Online Example: "She dropped the glass and IT broke into pieces" (the glass) examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Nikki called my phone and IT rang. | 3 | |
| 4892567378 | Antithesis | Online Example: Dumbledore and Voldemort in Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Merlin and Morgana (from the TV Show Merlin) | 4 | |
| 4892567379 | Aphormism | Online Example: All that glitters is gold examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours. | 5 | |
| 4892567380 | Appeals | Online Example: Ethos: "As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results." Pathos: "If we don't move soon, we're all going to die! Can't you see how dangerous it would be to stay?" Logos: "More than one hundred peer-reviewed studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss." examples.yourdictionary.com My Examples: Ethos: As an AP student, I can tell you that you will have no social life if you take AP classes. Pathos: "Don't you want a social life? If you don't you'll be an outcast! People will ridicule you!" Logos: Ninety-nine percent of AP students have no life. The other one percent should not be in AP. | 6 | |
| 4892680522 | Apostrophe | Online Example: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." -Macbeth by William Shakespeare literarydevices.net My Example: Oh dear book, why do I want to burn you so? You tempt me with your boredom and your abundance of words. | 7 | |
| 4892680523 | Assonance | Online Example: "Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Know that I glow because I go with the flow. | 8 | |
| 4892680524 | Asyndeton | Online Example: "I came. I saw. I conquered." (Julius Caesar) examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: I dove. I swam. I lost. | 9 | |
| 4892680525 | Attitude | Online Example: "All morons hate it when you call them a moron" (from "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger) literarydevices.net My Example: "Looking into them is like swimming in a cool, welcoming pond." (from "Whispers in Autumn" by Trisha Leigh) | 10 | |
| 4892680526 | Begging the Question | Online Example: "Freedom of speech is important because people should be able to speak freely" grammarist.com My Example: I deserve an "A" because I'm an A-worthy student. | 11 | |
| 4892680527 | Canon | Online Example: Thirty-seven plays by William Shakespeare classiclit.about.com My Example: The Bible | 12 | |
| 4892680528 | Chiasmus | Online Example: "Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?" (Oscar Hammerstein) examples.yourdictionary.com My Example: Am I hungry because I've eaten, or have I eaten because I'm hungry? | 13 |
