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Allegory
A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Allegories usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Allusion
A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event -- for example, Don Juan, brave new world, Everyman, Machiavellian, utopia.
Analogy
A comparison of objects or ideas that appear, at first, to be different but are alike in some important way.
Anapestic Meter
Meter that is composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented, usually used in light or whimsical poetry, such as a limerick.
Anaphora
A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of several clauses. An example from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech: "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro...
Anecdote
A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Antagonist
A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Anthropomorphism
A device in which the writer attracts human characteristics to an animate being or an inanimate object.
Antithesis
A contrast or opposition between two things.
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