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| 7138121947 | Ad Hominem | adjective. Appealing to personal considerations rather than fact or reason | 0 | |
| 7138122215 | allegory | noun. A short moral story often with animal characters. A visual symbol representing an abstract idea. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject with suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor. | 1 | |
| 7138124093 | alliteration | noun. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line or verse. | 2 | |
| 7138126745 | allusion | noun. A reference to a well known person,place or thing from literature, history, ect. | 3 | |
| 7138128017 | anachronism | noun. A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. An act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong. | 4 | |
| 7138131301 | anagram | noun. A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema formed from iceman. | 5 | |
| 7138133099 | analepsis | 1. the feast of Christ's ascension into heaven. 2. A literary technique that involves interruption of the chronological order of events by interjection of events, or scenes of earlier occurrence. A description of an event or scene from an earlier time that interrupts a chronological narrative. A literary flashback. | 6 | |
| 7138136085 | analogy | noun. A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or classification. A correspondence or partial similarity. A thing that is comparable to something else significant respects. | 7 | |
| 7138140835 | anapest | adjective or noun. A metrical fact consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable or two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. | 8 | |
| 7138142716 | anaphora | noun. Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. Use of grammatical substitute to refer to a denotation of a preceding word or group of words; also: the relation between a grammatical substitute and its antecedent. | 9 |
