Rhetorical Terms

48595025	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses
48595026	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure
48595027	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order
48595028	Parenthesis	Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence
48595029	Apposition	A noun or noun phrases that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning
48595030	Ellipsis	The deliberate omission of a word or of words readily implied by the context
48595031	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunctions between related clauses
48595032	Polysyndeton	The deliberate use of many conjuctions
48595033	Alliteration	Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words
48595034	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words
48595035	Anaphora	The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
48595036	Epistrophe	The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses
48595037	Epanalepsis	Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses
48595038	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
48595039	Climax	Arrangement of words, phrases, or cluases in the order of increasing importance
48595040	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse gramatical order
48595041	Chiasmus	Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses
48595042	Polyptoton	Repetition of words derived from the same root
48595043	Metaphor	An implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common
48595044	Simile	An explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common
48595045	Synecdoche	A part of something used to refer to the whole
48595046	Metonymy	An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations
48595047	Anataclasis	words that sound alike but behave different meanings
48595048	Paronomasia	words alike in sound but different in meaning
48595049	Syllepsis	A word used differently in relation to two other words it governs or modifies
48595050	Anthimeria	The substitution of one part of speech for another
48595051	Periphrasis	The substitution of an attribute word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality or characteristic
48595052	Personification	Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities
48595053	Hyperbole	The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
48595054	Litote	Understatement
48595055	Rhetorical Question	Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer, but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely
48595056	Irony	Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word
48595057	Onomatopoeia	Use of words whose sound echoes the sense
48595058	Oxymoron	Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings
48595059	Paradox	An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth
48595060	Zeugma	Somewhat like a syllepsis, but whereas in syllepsis the single word is grammatically and idiomatically compatible with bothe of the other words that it governs, in a zuegma the single word does not fit grammatically or idiomatically with one member of the pair