BHS Helle 2013
4736376712 | Schemes | ..., A rhetorical figure of speech which involves changing the order of words in a sentence | 0 | |
4736376713 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 1 | |
4736376714 | Isocolon | similarity not only of structure but of length | 2 | |
4736376715 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure | 3 | |
4736376716 | Anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order | 4 | |
4736376717 | Parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 5 | |
4736376718 | Apposition | placing side by side two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first | 6 | |
4736376719 | Ellipsis | the deliberate omission of a word or of words readily implied by the context | 7 | |
4736376720 | Asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series | 8 | |
4736376721 | Polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjunctions | 9 | |
4736376722 | Alliteration | repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | 10 | |
4736376723 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel forms, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 11 | |
4736376724 | Anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successful clauses | 12 | |
4736376725 | Epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successful clauses | 13 | |
4736376726 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | 14 | |
4736376727 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 15 | |
4736376728 | Climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 16 | |
4736376729 | Antimetabole | repetition of words, in successful clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 17 | |
4736376730 | Chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses (but no repetition of words) | 18 | |
4736376731 | Polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root | 19 | |
4736376732 | Tropes | ..., Rhetorical figures of speech in which the word is used in a different way from its accepted or normal form | 20 | |
4736376733 | Metaphor | implied comparison between two things of unlike nature | 21 | |
4736376734 | Simile | explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature | 22 | |
4736376735 | Synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole | 23 | |
4736376736 | Metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 24 | |
4736376737 | Antanaclasis | repetition of a word in two different senses | 25 | |
4736376738 | Paronomasis | use of words alike in sound but different in meaning | 26 | |
4736376739 | Syllepsis | use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs | 27 | |
4736376740 | Anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another | 28 | |
4736376741 | Periphrasis (antonomasia) | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name. | 29 | |
4736376742 | Personification (prosopopoeia) | investing abstractions for inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities | 30 | |
4736376743 | Hyperbole | the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect | 31 | |
4736376744 | Litotes | deliberate use of understatement | 32 | |
4736376745 | Rhetorical Question | asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely | 33 | |
4736376746 | Irony | use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | 34 | |
4736376747 | Onomatapoeia | use of words whose sound echoes the sense | 35 | |
4736376748 | Oxymoron | the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | 36 | |
4736376749 | Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth. | 37 |