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| 2766678065 | Asyndeton | The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 0 | |
| 2766681152 | Assonance | In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stresses syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 1 | |
| 2766683677 | Archetype | A recurrent symbol or motify in literature, art or mythology. | 2 | |
| 2766685775 | Anthropomorphism | Is any attribution of human characteristics (assumed to belong to humans) to animals, non-living phenomena, material stats, objects or abstract concepts (such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities) | 3 | |
| 2766690714 | Anti-hero | A central character in a story, movie or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes | 4 | |
| 2766694230 | Anecdote | A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 5 | |
| 2766696628 | Anastrophe | The inversion of the usual order of the words or clauses | 6 | |
| 2766698324 | Allegory | A story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 7 | |
| 2766701249 | Apostrophe | An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified) | 8 | |
| 2766706553 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth | 9 | |
| 2766714476 | Antimetabole | Is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order | 10 | |
| 2766717197 | Anaphora | Is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis or the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence to avoid repetition | 11 | |
| 2766723986 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 12 | |
| 2766725734 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 13 | |
| 2766735064 | Apposition | A relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent | 14 | |
| 2766778767 | 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 folk culture. | 15 | |
| 2766784022 | Blank Verse | A verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 2766784786 | Bidungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 17 | |
| 2766786507 | Bombastic | High-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people | 18 | |
| 2766788268 | Catharsis | The process of releasing and thereby providing relief form, strong or repressed emotions | 19 | |
| 2766789375 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order in the same or modified form | 20 | |
| 2766792239 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar concepts | 21 | |
| 2766793432 | Caricature | The art or style of such exaggerated representation | 22 | |
| 2766794438 | Caesura | A pause near the middle of a line | 23 | |
| 2766795813 | Cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 24 |
