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Ad hominem argument
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This is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect
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Allegory
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The device of using character/ and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning
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Alliteration
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The repetition of sounds
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Allusion
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A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably commonly known
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Ambiguity
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The multiple meanings , either intentional or not, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage
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Analogy
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A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
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Antecedent
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The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
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Antithesis
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A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences with a balanced grammatical structure
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Aphorism
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A terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle
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Apostrophe
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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love
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Atmoshpere
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The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work
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Caricature
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A representation in which the subject's distinctive features are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic effect.
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Chiasmus
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Based on inverted parallelism, it is a rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of terms
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Clause
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A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb
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Colloquialism
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Slang or informality in speech or writing
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