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| 10772951364 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities | 0 | |
| 10772961064 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together | 1 | |
| 10772974972 | Allusion | a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture. An indirect reference to something | 2 | |
| 10772988689 | Ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way- - this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work. | 3 | |
| 10772994728 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 10773007849 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 5 | |
| 10773017029 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion. | 6 | |
| 10773032572 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 7 | |
| 10773035472 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 8 | |
| 10773042630 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 9 | |
| 10773059052 | Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification) | 10 | |
| 10773063466 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called Maxim, Epigram | 11 | |
| 10773081331 | Apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called invocation. | 12 | |
| 10773094765 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. | 13 | |
| 10773104067 | Asyndeton | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of X, Y, and Z... the writer uses X,Y,Z..... see polysyndeton. | 14 |
