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Ad hominem
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Attacking the person or one of their beliefs instead of attacking their argument.
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Allegory
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A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor or conveying something that extends beyond what is literal.
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Alliteration
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A pattern of sounds that repeats the consonant sounds.
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Allusion
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a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
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Analogy
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Analogy is a comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain or illuminate the unfamiliar.
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Anaphora
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an anaphora (Greek: ἀναφορά, "carrying back") is emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses. Mad world! Mad king! Mad composition!
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Anecdote
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An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident.
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Antithesis
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In rhetoric, it is a figure of speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure, as in the following:
"When there is need of silence, you speak, and when there is need of speech, you are dumb; when present, you wish to be absent, and when absent, you desire to be present; in peace you are for war, and in war you long for peace; in council you descant on bravery, and in the battle you tremble." |
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Aphorism
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a brief, pithy, usually concise statement or observation of a doctrine, principle, truth, or sentiment
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Apostrophe
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