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| 11156213715 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 0 | |
| 11156219291 | Antithesis | "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." (Paradise Lost) | 1 | |
| 11156233268 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. May lack courage, grace, intelligence, or morals | 2 | |
| 11156239836 | Antihero | Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby | 3 | |
| 11156249052 | Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object | 4 | |
| 11156259768 | Anthropomorphism | "A Lion once fell in love with a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to her parents." (Aesop's Fables) | 5 | |
| 11156274815 | Aphorism | Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life or a principle or accepted general truth (a.k.a Maxim or Epigram) | 6 | |
| 11156303274 | Aphorism | "Lord, what fools these mortals be." (A Midsummer Night's Dream) | 7 | |
| 11156288368 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea | 8 | |
| 11156309439 | Apostrophe | "O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" (Julius Caesar) | 9 | |
| 11156321842 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 10 | |
| 11156329008 | Assonance | "Poetry is old, ancient, gOEs back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that nO man knOWs how and why the first pOEms came." (Early Moon) | 11 | |
| 11156345769 | Asyndeton | Commas used without conjunctions to separate a series of words thus emphasizing the parts equally | 12 | |
| 11156354138 | Asyndeton | "An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish." (Heart of Darkness) | 13 | |
| 11156371082 | Indirect characterization | The author reveals to the reader what the character is like through: speech, thoughts, effect on other characters, actions and looks. (STEAL) | 14 | |
| 11156397919 | Indirect characterization | "First of all," he said, "if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from their points of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around it." (To Kill A Mockingbird) | 15 | |
| 11156390248 | Direct characterization | The author directly tells us what the character is like. | 16 | |
| 11156427782 | Direct characterization | "Bill was short and fat, and his bald spot was widening with every passing year." | 17 | |
| 11156442077 | Static character | One that does not change much over the course of the story | 18 | |
| 11156445398 | Static character | Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird | 19 |
