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Action

The bare events in a story.

The action in hamlet for example, simply begins with the guards visitation by the ghost and ends carrying out the dead hamlet.

Allegory

An extended story which carries a deeper meaning below the surface. The story make sense on a literal level but also conveys another important meaning.

The deeper meaning is usually spiritual or moral or political. Ex chronicles of Narnia

Alliteration

A literary device which creates interest by the recurrence of initial consonant sounds of different words within the same sentence.

Ex: the "s" and the " h" sounds in: a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.