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| 4883080047 | Aphorism | A terse saying embodying a general truth, or absolute observation, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord Acton) | 0 | |
| 4883080048 | Apollonian | Pertaining to the cult of Apollo; serene, calm, or well-balanced; poised and disciplined; having the properties of or preferring classic beauty. (Compare Dionysian) | 1 | |
| 4883085429 | Apostrophe | A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as "O Death, where is thy sting?" | 2 | |
| 4883085430 | Arch | Playful roguish, or mischievous: an arch smile. Cunning; crafty; sly | 3 | |
| 4883086741 | Archetype | An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned | 4 | |
| 4883088558 | Argument | The process by which a writer tries to persuade a reader to adopt a particular view | 5 | |
| 4883088559 | Arrangement | The order in which ideas are presented in a speech or essay | 6 | |
| 4883090953 | Artistic Proofs | The proofs that are within the control of the speaker or writer; identified by Aristotle as ethos, logos, and pathos | 7 | |
| 4883090954 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills | 8 | |
| 4883090955 | Asyndeton | A rhetorical device in which expected conjunctions are omitted | 9 | |
| 4883090956 | Attitude | Manner, disposition, feeling, position with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind | 10 | |
| 4883091959 | Backing | The unstated assumption behind the argument | 11 | |
| 4883091960 | Balance | to serve as a counterpoise to; counterbalance; offset: The advantages more than balance the disadvantages. Ex: While the jury deliberated, his fate rested in the balance | 12 | |
| 4883091961 | Bard | Any poet | 13 | |
| 4883091962 | Bathos | A ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax; insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness; triteness or triviality in style | 14 |
