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| 5105972495 | aporia | Aporia is a figure of speech wherein a speaker purports or expresses to be in doubt or in perplexity regarding a question (often feigned) and asks the audience how he/she ought to proceed. The doubts may appear as rhetorical questions often in the beginning of the text. | 0 | |
| 5106012026 | climax | climax means mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction | 1 | |
| 5106015573 | aposeopesis | a sudden breaking off in the midst of a sentence, as if from inability or unwillingness to proceed. | 2 | |
| 5106020553 | apostrophe | In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O". A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 3 | |
| 5106101509 | anaclouthon | Anacoluthon is derived from a Greek word anakolouthos which means "lacking sequence". It is a stylistic device and is defined as a syntactic deviation and interruption within a sentence from one structure to another. In this interruption, the expected sequence of grammar is absent. The grammatical flow of sentences is interrupted in order to begin more sentences. | 4 | |
| 5106172861 | assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). | 5 | |
| 5109866287 | anadiplosis | The term anadiplosis is a Greek word which means "to reduplicate". It refers to the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. | 6 | |
| 5109971660 | prose | natural form of speech | 7 | |
| 5109987421 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of first part of a sentence | 8 | |
| 5109987422 | parody | same form | 9 | |
| 5110054702 | Antimetabole | Antimetabole is a literary and rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order. | 10 | |
| 5110061901 | Catachresis | Catachresis is a figure of speech in which writers use mixed metaphors in an inappropriate way to create rhetorical effect. Often, it is used intentionally to create a unique expression. Catachresis is also known as an exaggerated comparison between two ideas or objects. | 11 | |
| 5110248522 | allegory | a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation | 12 | |
| 5110289419 | chiasmus | Antimetabole examples resemble chiasmus examples as they are marked by the inversion of structure. In chiasmus, however, the words and phrases are not repeated. Generally, chiasmus and antimetabole are regarded by many critics as similar tools of rhetoric. | 13 | |
| 5351774918 | amplification | Amplification refers to a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability. When a plain sentence is too abrupt and fails to convey the full implications desired, amplification comes into play when the writer adds more to the structure to give it more meaning. | 14 |
