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Allegory
narrative in which characters and their actions are symbolic or personifications of qualities
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Zeugma
linking of a subject with two or more verbs, or linking a verb with two or more subjects
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Allusion
a reference to a historical / literary / religious event
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Ambiguity
writing which can be interpreted in multiple ways and/or with different connotations
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Anadiplosis
repeating the last word in a clause in the beginning of the next one
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Analogy
a comparison
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Anaphora
parallel repetition in the beginning of two or more clauses
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Anastrophe
when normal syntax is violated for emphasis
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"Of pain you could wish only one thing
that it should stop
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Anecdote
a short story
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Antimetabole
repetition of words but reversed
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Antithesis
juxtaposition of contrasting terms in the same sentence
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Apostrophe
a speech said to a personified object or a person who is not present
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Apposition
two noun phrases referring to the same subject
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Asyndeton
sentence with no conjunctions to make it fast-paced
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Cliche
a commonplace or overused theme/plot/character/trope
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Colloquialism
informal but common words/phrases
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Connotation
a words emotion/feeling it invokes
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"unique"
special (+), peculiar (-), or different (neutral)
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Dialect
attempts to mimic speech via spelling and grammar
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Diction
word choice
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Epanalepsis
emphasis on a word which is the first and last in the clause/sentence
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