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| 7280749252 | allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
| 7280749253 | alliteration | the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | 1 | |
| 7280750084 | allusion | an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand | 2 | |
| 7280750718 | anachronism | an event, custom, object, person or thing that is out of its natural order of time | 3 | |
| 7280751711 | analogy | a likeliness or similarity between things that are otherwise unlike | 4 | |
| 7280751712 | anaphora | repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines | 5 | |
| 7280753164 | anecdote | a brief narrative of an entertaining or seemingly truthful incident | 6 | |
| 7280753165 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other | 7 | |
| 7280755650 | aphesis | the loss of letters or syllables at the start of a word | 8 | |
| 7280755651 | aphorism | a terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim | 9 |
