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allegory

story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one

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anaphora

the repitition of words or phrases throughout a piece of literature

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analogy

to make a connection between two seemingly different things

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anadiplosis

the repitition of the last word or phrase of a preceding clause

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allusion

a brief reference to a historical or literacy figure, event, or object that the target audience would know

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alliteration

repitition of the same sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence

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coherence

something logical or consistent that makes sense as a whole

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chiasmus

creates a stylized writing effect, in which the second part of a sentence part of a sentence s a mirror image of the first

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cacophony

the use of words or phrases characterized by with disagreeable and unmelodious sounds, sounds that are hostile or disturbing

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audience

the listeners or spectators at a speech or performance, or the intended readership for a piece of writing

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asyndeton

a mission of a conjunction

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assonance

the repittion of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences

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appeals

the qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive

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aphorism

a short clever saying that is intended to express a general truth

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antithesis

pairs exact opposites or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure

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antimetabole

when words in the first half of a sentence are inverted in the second half of the sentence

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anthimeria

uses one part of speech as another, such as using a noun as a verb

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antecedent

literary device in which a pronoun or noun refers to an earlier phrase or word

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anecdote

a usually very short story of an interesting amusing, or biographical event

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anastrophe

a figure of speech in which the usual order of the subject, verb, and object is changed

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