9787612805 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities Ex. Animal Farm and Everyman | 0 | |
9787640154 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
9787657966 | 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 | |
9787704059 | Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row deliberate form of repetition | 3 | |
9787715761 | Anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence purpose is rhythm, emphasis, or euphony | 4 | |
9787729792 | Anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 5 | |
9787738643 | Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story | 6 | |
9787744419 | Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order "one should eat to live, not live to eat" | 7 | |
9787767237 | Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 8 |
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