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| 14775914370 | adage | a saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language. for example: "there is more than one way to skin a cat" | 0 | |
| 14775914371 | allegory | a story in which a second meaning is to be read beneath the surface | 1 | |
| 14776007095 | alliteration | the repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or sentence | 2 | |
| 14776007096 | allusion | a reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea | 3 | |
| 14776007097 | ambiguity | a vagueness if meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings or interpretations | 4 | |
| 14776007098 | anarchronism | a person, scene, event, or other element that fails to correspond with the appropriate time or era. for example: colombus sailing to the united states | 5 | |
| 14776007099 | analogy | a comparison that points out the similarities between two dissimilar things; a passage that points out several similarities between two unlike things is called an extended analogy | 6 | |
| 14776007100 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses (a form of parallelism) for example, "i have a dream.. i have a dream" | 7 | |
| 14776007101 | anecdote | a brief narrative often used to illustrate an idea or make a point | 8 | |
| 14776007102 | antimetabole | the identical or near repetition of words in one phrase or clause in reverse order in the next phrase or clause (a form of parallelism). for example, "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" | 9 |