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| 2964413732 | Allegory | Story or poem which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or ideas. | 0 | |
| 2964418731 | Alliteration | The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. | 1 | |
| 2964426539 | Allusion | A reference to someone or something from history, literature, religion, or another branch of culture. | 2 | |
| 2964431227 | Ambiguity | Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work. | 3 | |
| 2964436609 | Analogy | In the same way as one cannot have the rainbow without the rain, one cannot achieve success and riches without hard work. | 4 | |
| 2964443021 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. | 5 | |
| 2964448178 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. | 6 | |
| 2964455389 | Anecdote | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example. | 7 | |
| 2964464759 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against the hero | 8 | |
| 2964471929 | Antimetable | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 9 | |
| 2964477567 | Antithesis | When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon it might have been one small step for a man but it was one giant leap for mankind. | 10 | |
| 2964500807 | Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. | 11 | |
| 2964506043 | Anthropomorhphism | The raging storm brought with it howling winds and fierce lightning as the residents of the village looked up at the angry skies in alarm. | 12 | |
| 2964509795 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person | 13 | |
| 2964519717 | Apposition | Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements | 14 | |
| 2964527236 | Assonance | "A long song" | 15 | |
| 2964532662 | Asyndeton | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. | 16 | |
| 2964537665 | Balance | Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 17 | |
| 2964542889 | Characterization | The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. | 18 | |
| 2964547642 | Indirect Characterization | The author reveals the character by dress, talk, private thoughts and feelings, and actions. | 19 |
