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| 4323228805 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 4323228806 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 4323229564 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 2 | |
| 4323229565 | Ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language. | 3 | |
| 4323230925 | Anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. | 4 | |
| 4323230926 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 5 | |
| 4323232424 | Anapest | a poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed | 6 | |
| 4323233566 | Anaphora | In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 7 | |
| 4323233567 | Antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. | 8 | |
| 4323235800 | Anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. | 9 | |
| 4323235801 | Anti-hero | a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. | 10 | |
| 4323237388 | Apostrophe | a punctuation mark ( ' ) used to indicate either possession (e.g., Harry's book ; boys' coats ) or the omission of letters or numbers | 11 | |
| 4323237389 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing. | 12 | |
| 4323237390 | Aside | Breaking the fourth wall | 13 | |
| 4323239231 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 14 | |
| 4323240354 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. synonyms: | 15 | |
| 4323240355 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education. | 16 | |
| 4323241490 | Caesura | (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line. | 17 | |
| 4323241491 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. synonyms: | 18 | |
| 4323242377 | Climax | Climax is a structural part of a plot and is at times referred to as a crisis. It is a decisive moment or a turning point in a storyline at which the rising action turns around into a falling action. | 19 | |
| 4323242378 | Closed form | a type of poetry that exhibits regular structure, such as meter or a rhyming pattern; | 20 | |
| 4323244137 | Conceit | a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor. | 21 |
