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| 4943630892 | Allegory | Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 0 | |
| 4943630893 | Alliteration | Repititiom of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
| 4943630894 | Allusion | Refence to domeone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, and other branches of sport. | 2 | |
| 4943630895 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work | 3 | |
| 4943630896 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 4943630897 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentence in a row. | 5 | |
| 4943630898 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence | 6 | |
| 4943630899 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 7 | |
| 4943630900 | Antagonist | Opponent who stuggles against or blocks the hero/protagonist | 8 | |
| 4943630901 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 9 | |
| 4943630902 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 10 | |
| 5064251186 | Antithero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes | 11 | |
| 5064251187 | Anthropomorphism | Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 12 | |
| 5064251188 | Aphorism | Brief cleverly worded statement that makes abwise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth | 13 | |
| 5064251189 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea | 14 | |
| 5064251190 | Apposition | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more cooordinate elements, latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a colon). | 15 | |
| 5064251191 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 16 | |
| 5064251192 | Asyndenton | Commas used without conjunction to seperate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of x, y, AND z.... it is x, y, z | 17 | |
| 5064251193 | Balance | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 18 | |
| 5064251194 | Indirect characterization | The author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the charcter says, his/her thoughts, behavior and actions | 19 | |
| 5064251195 | Direct characterization | The author tells us directly what the character is like : sneaky generous, mean. | 20 | |
| 5064251196 | Static | One who does not change much in the course of the story | 21 | |
| 5064251197 | Flat | Has only one or two personality traits (summed up in one phrase). | 22 | |
| 5064251198 | Round | Has more dimensions more complex | 23 | |
| 5064251199 | Dynamic | Changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 24 | |
| 5064251200 | Characterization | The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 25 |
