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Allegory

A narrative story used to convey an abstract, complex, or dangerous message (a story hidden in another story)

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Alliteration

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in close proximity to each other

  • Red rose

  • Good grief

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Allusion

An implied or indirect reference made by the author

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Amplification

Adding more information to a sentence, hoping that it will be stronger louder and more important

  • “The dog is an excellent breed” -->  “The dog is an excellent breed, full of intelligence, loyalty, and overall healthfulness.”

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Anagram

Formed by rearranging the letters of another

  • "debit card" --> "bad credit"

  • "I am Lord Voldemort" --> "Tom Riddle"

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Analogy

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Anastrophe

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Anecdote

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Animalization

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Antopomorphism

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Antanaclasis

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Aporia

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Acrostic

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Antithesis

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Aphorism

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Archetype

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Assonance

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Asyndeton

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Authorial Intrusion

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Bibliomancy

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Cacophony

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Caesura

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Chiasmus

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Circumlocution

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Connotation

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Consonance

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Denotation

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Diction

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Doppelgänger

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Ekphrastic

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Enjambment

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Epilouge

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Epithet

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Euphemism

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Euphony

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Faulty Parallelism

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Hyperbaton

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Hyperbole

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Internal Rhyme

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Inversion

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Irony

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Juxtaposition

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Kennings

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Litotes

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Malapropism

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Metaphor

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Metonymy

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Negative Capibility

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Nemisis

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Onomatopoeia

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Oxymoron

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Paradox

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Pathetic fallacy

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Periodic structure

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Periphrasis

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Personification

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Polysyndeton

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Portmanteau

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Prolouge

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Pun

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Satire

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Simile

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Spoonerism

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Stanza

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Stream of consciousness

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Suspense

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Symbol

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Synecdoche

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Synaesthesia

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Theme

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Versimilitude

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Zeugma

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