| A | B |
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| allegory | an extended form of personification |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, historical event, movie, book poem |
| anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive sentences |
| anecdotes | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| antithesis | the juxtaposition of prhases, clauses, sentences, or ideas with other similarly structured phrases, clauses, sentences or ideas with opposite meanings |
| ambiguity | uncertainty of meaning |
| cliche | a work or expression that has lost its originality through continual use |
| conflict | a struggle between tow or more forces (external); a struggle within a person (internal) |
| diction | the kinds or levels of language used in a work |
| ethos | an appeal to ethics |
| figurative language | non literal language created by imager, metaphor, simile, personificatoin, etc, which extends and emphasizes literal meanings |
| flashback | a technique in which past events become part of the plot |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| irony | the opposite of what is expected occurs |
| dramatic irony | the reader has improtant information that one or more of the charactres does not have |
