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| 294491947 | Absolute | A word free from limitations or qualifications (best, all, unique, perfect) | |
| 294491948 | Adage | A familiar proverb or wise saying | |
| 294491949 | Ad hominem arguement | an argument attacking an individuals character rather than his or her position on an issue. | |
| 294491950 | Allegory | An extended metaphor | |
| 294491951 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words | |
| 294491952 | Allusion | A reference to something literary, mythological, or histgorical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | |
| 294491953 | Anaphora | The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | |
| 294491954 | Antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced. The juxtapositojn of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure. "Place your virtues on a pedestal; put your voice under a rock." | |
| 294491955 | Aphorism | A concise statement thaqt expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance | |
| 294491956 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | |
| 294491957 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | |
| 294491958 | Appeal | One of the three strategies for persuading audiences- logos, reason; pathos, emotion; ethos, ethics. | |
| 294491959 | Apology | An elaborate statement justifying some controversial, even contentious, position. | |
| 294491960 | Agency | In a DRAMATISTIC PENTAD created by a speaker or writer in order to invent material, the words the speaker or writer uses to describe the means by which something happens/happened in a particular situation. | |
| 294491961 | Anticipated Objection | The technique a writer or speaker uses in an arguementive text to address an answer objections, even though the audience has not had the opportunity to voice these objections. | |
| 294491962 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." | |
| 294491963 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. | |
| 294491964 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | |
| 294491965 | Anthimeria | One part of speech--for example, a noun--substituting for another-- for example, a verb |
