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15081801750Allegorya story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.0
15081801751AlliterationRepetition of initial consonant sounds1
15081801752AllusionA reference to another work of literature, person, or event2
15081801753AmbiguityThe multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.3
15081801754AnalogyA comparison of two different things that are similar in some way4
15081801755AntecedentThe word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.5
15081801756Antithesisthe direct opposite, a sharp contrast6
15081801757AphorismA terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.7
15081801758Apostrophe (not the punctuation mark)a form of personification and direct address in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present, and the inanimate as if animate (ex: god or death8
15081801759atmosphere/moodthe mood/ feeling of the literary work created for the reader by the writer.9

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