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| 8519096534 | Allegory | Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 0 | |
| 8519096868 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. | 1 | |
| 8519098023 | 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 | |
| 8519099478 | 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- | 3 | |
| 8519100012 | Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 8519101291 | 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 | |
| 8519101501 | 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 | |
| 8519102928 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows a character as an individual. | 7 | |
| 8519104389 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the protagonist. | 8 | |
| 8519105320 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 9 | |
| 8519106225 | Chiasmus | Antimetabole in poetry | 10 | |
| 8519107051 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 11 | |
| 8519109985 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples. | 12 | |
| 8519110375 | Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 13 | |
| 8519111039 | Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. | 14 | |
| 8519111040 | Maxim, Epigram. | Also called aphorism | 15 | |
| 8519112325 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | 16 | |
| 8519112914 | Invocation | If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration | 17 | |
| 8519113627 | 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). | 18 | |
| 8519113983 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. | 19 | |
| 8519116263 | 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.... | 20 | |
| 8519116888 | Balance | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well. | 21 | |
| 8519117234 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. | 22 | |
| 8519117546 | Indirect Characterization | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people (showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character), or by showing the character in action. Common in modern literature | 23 | |
| 8519118611 | Direct Characterization | the author tells us directly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, mean to pets and so on. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this form. | 24 |
