allegory: a symbolical narrative:
alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
allusion: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
ambiguity: doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention
anachronism: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time
analogy: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
analysis: this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations
anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
anecdote: a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
antagonist: the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work:
antithesis: the direct opposite
aphorism: a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation
apologia: an apology, as in defense or justification of a belief, idea, etc.
apostrophe: the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man's; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols
argument: an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation
assumption: something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
audience: the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public
characterization: the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.
chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases
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