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| 13436972832 | ad hominem argument | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue (appeals to emotion rather than intellect) | 0 | |
| 13436972833 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 13436972834 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 2 | |
| 13436972835 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event (historical, religious, or mythical) | 3 | |
| 13436972836 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 4 | |
| 13436972837 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 5 | |
| 13436972838 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun (given in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences) | 6 | |
| 13436972839 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins" | 7 | |
| 13436972840 | aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life | 8 | |
| 13436972841 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 9 | |
| 13436972842 | atmosphere | the emotional mood 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 | 10 | |
| 13436972843 | caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | 11 | |
| 13424638646 | ad hominem argument | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue (appeals to emotion rather than intellect) | 12 | |
| 13424638647 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 13 | |
| 13424638648 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 14 | |
| 13424638649 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event (historical, religious, or mythical) | 15 | |
| 13424638650 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 16 | |
| 13424638651 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them | 17 | |
| 13424638652 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun (given in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences) | 18 | |
| 13424638653 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins" | 19 | |
| 13424638654 | aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life | 20 | |
| 13424638655 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 21 | |
| 13424638656 | atmosphere | the emotional mood 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 | 22 | |
| 13424638657 | caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | 23 |
