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| 12565388374 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 0 | |
| 12565394959 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. | 1 | |
| 12565397888 | 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 (usually from literature, etc.). | 2 | |
| 12565397889 | 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 | |
| 12565411404 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 12565421845 | 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 | |
| 12565426852 | 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 | |
| 12565429811 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual | 7 | |
| 12565432784 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 8 | |
| 12565437676 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 9 | |
| 12565437677 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 10 | |
| 12565445899 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples. | 11 | |
| 12565445900 | Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification) | 12 | |
| 12565448378 | 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. | 13 | |
| 12565448379 | 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 an invocation. | 14 | |
| 12565452076 | Apposition | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set off by a colon). | 15 | |
| 12565452077 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. | 16 | |
| 12565455870 | 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. | 17 |
