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| 61276484 | absolute | a word free from limitations or qualifications | |
| 61276485 | adage | a familiar proverb or wise saying | |
| 61276486 | ad hominem argument | attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position | |
| 61276487 | allegory | a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions (an extended metaphor) | |
| 61276488 | alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words | |
| 61276489 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader knows | |
| 61276490 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | |
| 61276491 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | |
| 61276492 | anecdote | a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | |
| 61276493 | antecedent | the word, phrase or clause to which a pronoun refers | |
| 61276494 | antithesis | a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced in parallel structure | |
| 61276495 | aphorism | a concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance | |
| 61276496 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | |
| 61276497 | archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth | |
| 61276498 | argument | a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work | |
| 61276499 | asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | |
| 61276500 | balanced sentence | a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize contrast | |
| 61276501 | chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | |
| 61276502 | cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that its freshness has worn off | |
| 61276503 | colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing |
