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| 14727545935 | Allegory | A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. A universal symbol or a personified abstraction. | 0 | |
| 14727560757 | Alliteration | The repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables. | 1 | |
| 14727582232 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work. | 2 | |
| 14727591470 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 14727596878 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. | 4 | |
| 14727613409 | Aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief | 5 | |
| 14727624037 | Appeals to: authority, emotion, logic | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason | 6 | |
| 14727626235 | Apostrophe | An address or invocation to something inanimate | 7 | |
| 14727630406 | Assonance | Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words. | 8 | |
| 14727648468 | Asyndeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose | 9 | |
| 14727653238 | Attitude | the sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or the mood of a piece of writing; the authors feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader. | 10 | |
| 14727669570 | Begging the question | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question | 11 | |
| 14727675245 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic | 12 | |
| 14727680840 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second | 13 | |
| 14727687830 | Colloquial | A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area. | 14 |
