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| 7811468957 | allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. Usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. | 0 | |
| 7811509889 | alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). | 1 | |
| 7811540708 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 2 | |
| 7811583996 | ambiguity | The multiple meaning, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 7811594749 | analogy | A similarity of comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 7811614216 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 5 | |
| 7811673300 | antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 6 | |
| 7811681866 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth o a moral principle. | 7 | |
| 7811706078 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personifies abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone o something that cannot answer. | 8 | |
| 7811746027 | atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. Perhaps it can create a mood. | 9 | |
| 7811791627 | caricature | A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 10 | |
| 7811809689 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent, or main, clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. A dependent, or subordinate clause, cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by and independent clause. | 11 |
