4342628559 | Allegory | A story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or generalization about life, often have a strong moral or lesson. | 0 | |
4342631170 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 1 | |
4342633972 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 2 | |
4342635890 | Analogy | A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based | 3 | |
4342640618 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 4 | |
4342647827 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 5 | |
4342649634 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 6 | |
4342650941 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
4342652770 | Aphorism | A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment . | 8 | |
4342656080 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 9 | |
4342659408 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions. Ex: "Speed up the film Montag, quick. Click, pic, look, eye, now, flick, here, there..." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451) | 10 |
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