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| 11063524928 | Ad Hominenm | attacks against people to discredit their ideas | 0 | |
| 11063524929 | Alegory | a sustained metaphor continued through whole sentence or even through a whole disclosure/sentence | 1 | |
| 11063524930 | Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more neighboring words | 2 | |
| 11063528498 | Allusion | a passing reference w/o explicit indentification to a literary or historical work | 3 | |
| 11063540176 | Ambiguity | when a word or phrase possesses multiple meetings either intentionally or unintentionally | 4 | |
| 11063542258 | Anachronism | a thing belonging to a different time period | 5 | |
| 11063542259 | Analepis | flashback to an earlier part in the story | 6 | |
| 11063542260 | Prolepis | looking into the future | 7 | |
| 11063544300 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of a preceding clause (if you give a mouse a cookie) | 8 | |
| 11063544301 | Analogy | comparing similarities | 9 | |
| 11063544302 | Anaphora | parallel structure starting with the same words "why I write" | 10 | |
| 11063546325 | Antecedent | a word, phrase, or clause to which another word refers (he says.) | 11 | |
| 11063546326 | Aphorism | a pithy and pointed statement of serious maxim, opinion, or general truth a saying | 12 | |
| 11063546327 | Aporia | expressions of doubt or perplexity, claim in doubt by developing arguments on both side indirectly ask audience what to do | 13 | |
| 11063548161 | Apotheosis | unfinished thought or broken sentence "Nothing lasts for..." | 14 | |
| 11063562164 | Appositive | two units grammatically parallel (noun and remains another noun in a sentence) The cat, a Siamese one, meowed. | 15 | |
| 11063562165 | Apostrophe | figure of speech represented by exclamation O, detach from reality and address imaginary "O Heavens, what should I do?" | 16 | |
| 11063562166 | Assonance | repetition vowel sounds Tina Fay lays all day, she's in my way | 17 | |
| 11063563857 | Asyndeton | committing conjunction between words, phrases, clauses I came, I saw, I cried | 18 | |
| 11063563858 | Atmosphere | emotion created by word (similar to tone) | 19 | |
| 11063566465 | Mood | emotions elicted on the text | 20 | |
| 11063566466 | Attitude | approach, disposition, stance | 21 | |
| 11063566467 | Audience | readers of the text | 22 |
