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7833368165alliteration"To make a man to meet the moral need/ A man to match the mountains and the sea" (Edwin Markham)0
7833368166anadiplosis"Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business." (Francis Bacon)1
7833369807anaphora"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence..." (Winston Churchill)2
7833375009anthimeriaI could use a good sleep.3
7833375010appeal"I elicited the anger of some of the most aggressive teenagers in my high school. A couple of nights later, a car pulled up in front of my house, and the angry teenagers in the car dumped garbage on the lawn of my house as an act of revenge and intimidation." (James Garbarino)4
7833377399appositiveOrion, my orange cat, is sitting on the couch.5
7833377400argument"The Patriots prevailed over the Loyalists, who they violently persecuted due to their conflicting position; both betrayed the African slaves to temporarily bolster their military."6
7833381795dramatic narrationa narrative in which the reader or viewer does not have access to the unspoken thoughts of the character7
7833381796dynamic characterone who changes during the course of the narrative8
7833390898evidence"Recent studies in the brain chemistry of rats show that when they play, their brains release large amounts of dopamine..." (Rifkin).9
7833390899metonymy"The press" for news media10
7833390900symbolRachel's mirror in The Poisonwood Bible11
7833392511tautology"If you don't get any better, then you'll never improve."12
7833394150tropepun or metonymy13
7833394151voicetextual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer/speaker's persona14

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