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| allegory | a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
| alliteration | The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| allusion | A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture |
| analogy | A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike |
| anecdote | A very brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something |
| aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |
| apostrophe | A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. |
| assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together. |
| autobiography | An account of the writer's own life |
| anapest | A metrical foot that has two unstressed sylabbles followed by one stressed syllable. |
