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| 7214170088 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence | 0 | |
| 7214170089 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. | 1 | |
| 7214170090 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 2 | |
| 7214170627 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 7214170628 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 7214171407 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP exam often gives a pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences. | 5 | |
| 7214172136 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 6 | |
| 7214172137 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. It can be a memorable summation of the author's point. | 7 | |
| 7214172138 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. | 8 | |
| 7214172613 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod 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. Atmosphere frequently foreshadows events and can create a mood. | 9 |
