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| 595675943 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | |
| 595675944 | Allusion | passing reference or indirect mention | |
| 595675945 | Amplification | addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | |
| 595675946 | Anacoluthon | an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another | |
| 595675947 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | |
| 595675948 | Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | |
| 595675949 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 595675950 | Antanagoge | placing a good point or benefit next to a fault, criticism, or problem, in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point | |
| 595675951 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | |
| 595675952 | Antiphrasis | the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) | |
| 595675953 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | |
| 595675954 | Apophasis | mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned | |
| 595675955 | Aporia | expression of doubt about conclusions | |
| 595675956 | Aposiopesis | breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations) | |
| 595675957 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | |
| 595675958 | Appositive | relating to or being in apposition | |
| 595675959 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | |
| 595675960 | Asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | |
| 595675961 | Catachresis | strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as 'blatant' to mean 'flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: 'blind mouths') | |
| 595675962 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | |
| 595675963 | Climax | arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness | |
| 595675964 | Conduplicatio | Repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses | |
| 595675965 | Diacope | Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase | |
| 595675966 | Dirimens Copulatio | mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified | |
| 595675967 | Distinctio | an explicit reference to a particular meaning or to the various meanings of a word, in order to remove or prevent ambiguity | |
| 595675968 | Enthymeme | an informally-stated syllogism which omits either one of the premises or the conclusion; the omitted part must be clearly understood by the reader | |
| 595675969 | Enumeratio | detailing parts, causes, effects, or consequences to make a point more forcibly | |
| 595675970 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning | |
| 595675971 | Epistrophe | repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | |
| 595675972 | Epithet | descriptive word or phrase | |
| 595675973 | Epizeuxis | repetition of the same word for emphasis | |
| 595675974 | Eponym | the name of a person for whom something is supposedly named | |
| 595675975 | Exemplum | example | |
| 595675976 | Sentential Adverb | A single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the adverb. (E.g. But the lake was not, IN FACT, drained before April) | |
| 595675977 | Hyperbation | distanced placement of two words which are logically meant to be understood togeteher | |
| 595675978 | Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | |
| 595675979 | Hypophora | raising a question then proceeding to answer it | |
| 595675980 | Hypotaxis | using subordination to show the relationship between clauses or phrases (and hence the opposite of parataxis) | |
| 595675981 | Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | |
| 595675982 | Metabasis | brief summary of what has been said and what will follow | |
| 595675983 | Metanoia | change of heart | |
| 595675984 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | |
| 595675985 | Metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') | |
| 595675986 | Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote | |
| 595675987 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | |
| 595675988 | Parallelism | similarity by virtue of correspondence | |
| 595675989 | Parataxis | writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions | |
| 595675990 | Parenthesis | a message that departs from the main subject | |
| 595675991 | Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | |
| 595675992 | Pleonasm | using more words than necessary | |
| 595675993 | Polysyndeton | using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in 'he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') | |
| 595675994 | Procatalepsis | by anticipating an objection and answering it, permits an argument to continue moving forward while taking into account points or reasons opposing either the train of thought or its final conclusions. | |
| 595675995 | Rhetorical Question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered | |
| 595675996 | Scesis Onomaton | emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements | |
| 595675997 | Sententia | opinion | |
| 595675998 | Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | |
| 595675999 | Symploce | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe | |
| 595676000 | Synecdoche | substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | |
| 595676001 | Understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | |
| 595676002 | Zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one |
