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| 4795530542 | Ad Hominem | Attacking the arguer rather than the argument or the issue. "This was hardly an ad hominem assault, though West interpreted it that way." | 0 | |
| 4795530543 | Allegory | The device of using character and or story element symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. "Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey." | 1 | |
| 4795530544 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. "The reader will note the alliteration of the l's in the third and fourth lines, and the h's in the next two." | 2 | |
| 4795530545 | Allusion | Direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. "There were a host of other matters to which allusion need not be made." | 3 | |
| 4795530546 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different and sometimes conflicting meetings and at work. "We can detect no ambiguity in this section of the Act." | 4 | |
| 4795530547 | Anadiplosis | What kind of repetition in which the last word or phrase of one sentence or line of poetry is repeated at the beginning of the next line. "Forget what you want to remember, and remember what you want to forget." | 5 | |
| 4795617731 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. "Works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature." | 6 | |
| 4795617732 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word phrase or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or lines of poetry in a row. "My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration." | 7 | |
| 4795617733 | Anastrophe | A literary technique in which the normal order of words is the first in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. "He spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be." | 8 | |
| 4795617734 | Anecdote | A brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something off and showing the character of an individual. ""I was not offended by it," Logan recalls, in an interview Monday night, confirming the anecdote." | 9 |
