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| extended metaphor. Narrative in which abstract ideas figure as circumstances or persons | ||
| repetition of the same consonantal sound, usually at the beginning or within two or more successive words | ||
| repetition of a word, usually at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | ||
| an abrupt break in a sentence, wherein the speaker is seemingly overwhelmed with anger, fear, excitement, or other excessive emotion. An unfinished thought, meaning of which is usually clear | ||
| a "turning away" from one to address another; often used to address an absent of personified object or person | ||
| the omission of connectors in a closely related series in order to impress the reader with a quick succession of ideas | ||
| a criss-cross patterning of words, often nouns and adjectives, in the arrangement ABBA, e.g. noun-adjective-adjective-noun | ||
| a digression vividly describing a place, object, event. In epic poetry, this device creates a transition to a new scene. | ||
| the omission of easily understood or assumed word order to avoid repetition, to secure rapidity of narration, or to accommodate the requirements of meter. | ||
| in verse, the building of suspense by postponing to the next line a significant word or words to the previous line. A run on line. | ||
| the use of two nouns connected by a conjunction and having the meaning of a single modified noun | ||
| exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect; overstatement | ||
| reversal of the normal or expected sequence of events in order to put the more important idea, which logically would come later in time, first. | ||
| the expression of something contrary to what is intended, e.g. the words say one thing but actually mean another. The usage is a sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm that states and apparent fact with the manifest intention of expressing the opposite. | ||
| an understatement or double negative. These consist of a negative word and a following adjective with a negative prefix. This figure usually asserts something by denying its opposite. | ||
| an implied comparison, made through the figurative use of words that suggest a likeness between what is actually being described and something else. | ||
| A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | ||
| using words that imitate the sound they denote | ||
| paradox, or the juxtaposition of opposite or contradictory words in the same phrase. | ||
| the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects, animals or concepts, in order to stimulate the reader's imagination and thus gain vividness | ||
| the use of redundant, superfluous, or unnecessary words | ||
| repetition of a word, but in different forms | ||
| the use of more conjunctions than is needed in a series of coordinating word, phrases, or clauses | ||
| Pretended omission for rhetorical effect. | ||
| speaking of something future as already completed or existing; anticipation or preconception, a "looking forward". | ||
| impersonation of an absent or imaginary speaker as speaking, for dramatic effect | ||
| emphasis of specific words by varying the usual word order found in prose. Words are arranged so that one word of a pair is placed between the words of the other pair, as in ABAB patter, e.g., adj. A, adj. B, noun A, noun B. An adjective will usually precede the noun it modifies. | ||
| the use of the part for the whole for variety of expression. This figure often stresses and important feature, such as the material of which the object is made or an individual in place of a group | ||
| the separation of parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words | ||
| an adjective that agrees grammatically with one noun but is placed close to, and shares its meaning with, another noun. | ||
| the use of three closely related or parallel descriptive elements, increasing in size and emphasis, to modify a person or thing. | ||
| the use of one part of speech (usually a verb, but sometimes a noun) with two objects, when strictly speaking, the word can be applied only to one of them. |
