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- Abstraction
- To make something vague
- absurd
- the view that there is no order or value
- aesthetics
- the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty
- ambiguity
- doubtfulness
- analogy
- a big metaphor
- anaphora
- deliberate repetition of a word or phrase
- Anomaly
- an irregularity or difference
- Antecedent
- what the pronoun is referring to
- Antihero
- a main character who lacks protagonist qualities
- Antithesis
- placing parts of a sentence against each other to form a balanced contrast of ideas
- Aphorism
- a simple statement of truth
- Apostrophe
- addressing a non-real thing ex. God
- Appeal
- an earnest request for aid
- Authorial Persona
- something the author constructs ex. a person that is different from the person they are when they are with friends
- Autonomy
- acting independently
- Axiom
- a self-evident truth that requires no truth
- Conceit
- vanity or pride
- catharsis
- a technique uses to relieve tension
- challenge
- objection
- claim
- stretch of truth
- clause
- a group of words that contain a subject and a predicate
- coherence
- careful organization
- connection
- for a narrative to become a plot it must reveal its meaning in human terms