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| 14818889745 | ad hominem argument | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue | 0 | |
| 14818889746 | Allegory | Bible stories | 1 | |
| 14818893879 | Allusion | Her Mona Lisa smile gave nothing away about her feelings | 2 | |
| 14818899626 | Anachronism | chronological inconsistency | 3 | |
| 14818904625 | Analogy | Metaphors, similes, etc. | 4 | |
| 14818918044 | Repetition (Anaphora, Epiphora, Epistrophe) | I believe. I believe that we. I believe that we will win. | 5 | |
| 14818918045 | Anecdote | A brief narrative | 6 | |
| 14818921116 | Anthimeria | Google as a noun changed to "I googled it" | 7 | |
| 14818929373 | Apostrophe | When about to do something wrong, the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. | 8 | |
| 14818938827 | Archetype/ Motif | Disney movie stepmoms are bad/ evil. | 9 | |
| 14818943200 | Conceit | In Brave, The tapestry represents the beginning, middle, and end of the story. | 10 | |
| 14818949985 | Connotation | Implied meaning of word | 11 | |
| 14818952622 | Denotation | the literal meaning | 12 | |
| 14818955278 | Dialect | Coke vs. Pop, Lift vs. Elevator. Not colloquialism. | 13 | |
| 14818963915 | Diction | Skinny vs. anorexic | 14 | |
| 14818966417 | Didactic | Teacher lecture | 15 | |
| 14818970245 | Elegy | Death | 16 | |
| 14818977636 | Epic | King Arthur and the Quest for the Holy Grail | 17 | |
| 14818984354 | Epigram/ Adage/ Aphorism/ Maxim | "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" | 18 | |
| 14818991681 | Epigraph | Picture/ quote above chapter/ title | 19 | |
| 15289322989 | Epithet/ Antonomasia | "swift-footed Achilles" or "The Rocket" / Your Highness for the queen or Commander in Chief for the president | 20 | |
| 15289327365 | Eulogy | positive=eulogy/ encomium- both are nouns | 21 | |
| 15289334461 | Euphemism | She's not fat, she's fluffy | 22 | |
| 15289336403 | Fable | The Tortoise and the Hare | 23 | |
| 15289338996 | Frame Device | Frankenstein/ includes a story within a story | 24 | |
| 15289342307 | Homily | Fable= animals/ story Homily= people/ lecture/ i.e. church sermon | 25 | |
| 15289348088 | Hubris | Achilles- Excessive pride that leads to downfall of protagonist of tragedy | 26 | |
| 15289358857 | Hyperbation/ Anastrophe | yoda speak/ dobby speak | 27 | |
| 15289360736 | Idiom | Monkey business/ raining cats and dogs | 28 | |
| 15289366174 | Isocolon/ Chiasmus/ Antimetabole | "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" - JFK Inauguration Speech | 29 |