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| 4830126737 | Accent | Stress; a syllable given more stress | 0 | |
| 4830128059 | Act | A major division of a dramatic work | 1 | |
| 4830129609 | Allegory | A story or poem which character, settings, and events stand for the other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities | 2 | |
| 4830135534 | Alliteration | Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | 3 | |
| 4830138685 | Allusion | Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, science, or another branch | 4 | |
| 4830148395 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and somethings conflicting, meanings in a work | 5 | |
| 4830151987 | Anachronism | From the Greek, "misplaced in time", that which is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time | 6 | |
| 4830158625 | Anadiplosis | Repeating the last words of a clause at the beginning of the next clause | 7 | |
| 4830161185 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 8 | |
| 4830171257 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two I accented syllables followed by one accented syllable | 9 | |
| 4830175721 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 10 | |
| 4830178982 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence; fancy word for inversion | 11 | |
| 4830187075 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something; often used to characterize an individual | 12 | |
| 4830195418 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story | 13 | |
| 4830208081 | Antecedent | That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 14 | |
| 4830212511 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than the reader had been led to expect; is frequently comic | 15 | |
| 4830219894 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order; in poetry, called chiasmus | 16 | |
| 4830225105 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammical structure | 17 | |
| 4830248860 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes who may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples | 18 | |
| 4830258748 | Anthropomorphism | Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (akin to personification) | 19 | |
| 4830263388 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about | 20 | |
| 4854637011 | Apollonian | In contrast to Dionysian, it refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behavior | 21 | |
| 4854644900 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, to a place or thing, or personified abstract idea | 22 | |
| 4854653072 | Apposition/appositive | Placing in immediately succeeding order two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first | 23 | |
| 4854663995 | Approximate rhyme | Also know as slant rhyme, terms used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes | 24 | |
| 4962871495 | archaism | deliberate use of old-fashioned words | 25 | |
| 4962873789 | archetype | an original model or type after which other things are patterned; a character or personality found in every society | 26 | |
| 4962878990 | aside | words spoken by a character tat are intended to be heard by the audience rather than other characters | 27 | |
| 4962882996 | assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds | 28 | |
| 4962886763 | asyndeton | omitting conjunctions and using commas to separate a series of words, emphasizing the parts equally | 29 |
