4334061584 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualitites | 0 | |
4334075937 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
4334097026 | Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something | 2 | |
4334162454 | Ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more, sometimes conflicting, meanings is a work | 3 | |
4334175728 | Analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
4334189276 | Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. | 5 | |
4334198363 | Anastrophe | inversion of the usual, logical, or normal order of the parts of a sentence | 6 | |
4334217540 | Anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something | 7 | |
4334230169 | Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero | 8 | |
4334237583 | Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical | 9 | |
4334253302 | Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 10 | |
4334274185 | Antihero | central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heros | 11 | |
4334290646 | Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 12 | |
4334297945 | Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle, or an accepted truth | 13 | |
4334380927 | Apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place or thing or a personified abstract idea | 14 | |
4334447850 | Apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, | 15 |
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