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allegory
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a story with a double meaning
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allusion
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usually an implicit reference, perhaps to anothe rwork of literature, art, person, or event
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analogy
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a word or thing similar or parallel to another
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anaphora
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repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive lines/sentences
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antithesis
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2 ideas that are directly opposed
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aphorism
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a concise, pointed, epigrammatic statement that purports to reveal a truth or principle
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apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which the speaker directly (and often emotionally) addresses a person who is dead or not physically present
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apposition
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2 phrases that are logically equivalent and in the same gramattical relation to the rest of the sentence.
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