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Anecdote

A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event

Analogy

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

Aphorism

A concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance

Asyndeton

A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions

Archetype

A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response

Adage

A familiar adverb

Apostrophe

A figure of speech in which one directly expresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction

Allegory

A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions

Allusion

A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

Antithesis

A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced

Argument

A statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work

Absolute

A word free from limitation or qualification "best" "all" "unique"

Ad hominem argument

An argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue

Alliteration

The repetition of the initial sounds in successive or neighboring words

Anaphora

The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences

Antecedent

The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers