For expanded definitions and examples, examine http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm or http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm or http://www.mrgunnar.net/files/Schemes%20and%20Tropes%20complete%20HO.pdf (to whom I am greatly indebted).
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| 1184289351 | Tropes | --rhetorical figures of speech in which the word is used in a different way from its accepted or normal form | 0 | |
| 1184289352 | Metaphor | --implied comparison between two things of unlike nature | 1 | |
| 1184289353 | Simile | --explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature | 2 | |
| 1184289354 | Synecdoche | --figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole | 3 | |
| 1184289355 | Metonymy | --substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 4 | |
| 1184289356 | Antanaclasis | --repetition of a word in two different senses | 5 | |
| 1184289357 | Paronomasis | --use of words alike in sound but different in meaning | 6 | |
| 1184289358 | Syllepsis | --use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs | 7 | |
| 1184289359 | Anthimeria | --the substitution of one part of speech for another | 8 | |
| 1184289360 | 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 | 9 | |
| 1184289361 | Personification (prosopopoeia) | --investing abstractions for inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities | 10 | |
| 1184289362 | Hyperbole | --the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect | 11 | |
| 1184289363 | Litotes | --deliberate use of understatement | 12 | |
| 1184289364 | Rhetorical question | --asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely | 13 | |
| 1184289365 | Irony | --use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | 14 | |
| 1184289366 | Onomatapoeia | --use of words whose sound echoes the sense | 15 | |
| 1184289367 | Oxymoron | --the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | 16 | |
| 1184289368 | Paradox | --an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth | 17 |
