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| 7253312126 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses and qualities of beauty. | 0 | |
| 7253312127 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 7253312128 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. | 2 | |
| 7253312129 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. | 3 | |
| 7253312130 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 4 | |
| 7253312131 | Anapest | 3 syllables foot - stress on the last | 5 | |
| 7253312132 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 6 | |
| 7253312133 | Anecdote | A short story; usually interesting or amusing to make some point. | 7 | |
| 7253312134 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification. | 8 | |
| 7253312135 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 9 | |
| 7253312136 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 10 | |
| 7253312137 | Antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced | 11 | |
| 7253312138 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 12 | |
| 7253312139 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 13 | |
| 7253312140 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 14 | |
| 7253312142 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 15 | |
| 7253312143 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 16 | |
| 7253312144 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 17 | |
| 7253312145 | Asyndeton | The absence or omission of conjunctions (and, but, yet, etc.) between parts of a sentence. | 18 | |
| 7253312141 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in meter and rhyme. Typically has a naive folksy quality. | 19 | |
| 7253312146 | Ballad stanza | A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. | 20 | |
| 7253312148 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 21 | |
| 7253312149 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 22 | |
| 7253312147 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry as evidenced by punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, etc.). | 23 |
