| A | B |
|---|
| Anaphora | repetition of words for effect |
| Asyndeton | lack of conjunctions |
| Polysyndeton | use of too many conjunctions |
| Polyptoton | use of multiple forms of the same word |
| Alliteration | repetition of sounds (consonants) |
| Simile | comparison using ut, velut, similis |
| Metaphor | an implied comparison |
| Hendiadys | two nouns connected by et that can be translated as one thing |
| Zeugma | one verb, two objects, one figurative meaning, one literal |
| Chiasmus | crisscross word order |
| Synecdoche | use of a part of something to represent the whole |
| Apostrophe | addressing someone or something not present |
| Personification | attributing human qualities to inanimate objects |
| Tricolon Crescendo | arrangement of three ideas with increasing force |
| Preterition | saying something by pretending to pass over it |
| Onomatopoeia | word sounds like what it means |
| Anastrophe | inversion of the usual order of words |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Allegory | narrative where abstract idea enforces moral truth |
| Antithesis | opposition of ideas in balanced grammatical structure |
| Aposiopesis | an abrupt failure to complete sentence |
| Assonance | juxtaposition of similar vowel sounds |
| Ecphrasis | apparent digression describing a place |
| Ellipsis | omission of word(s) necessary to the sense of passage |
| Enjambment | closely related words fall in different lines |
| Framing | placing closely connected words at beginning and end of line |
| Golden Line | 5 word line, verb in center with interlocked pairs on either side |
| Hysteron Proteron | reversal of natural order of things |
| Interlocked Word Order | synchesis - ABAB |
| Irony | use of words with meaning contrary to situation |
| Litotes | an understatement for emphasis |
| Metonymy | use of noun in place of another closely related noun |
| Oxymoron | paradox, use of contradictory words |
| Pleonasm | use of unnecessary words |
| Prolepsis | use of a word before it is appropriate in context |
| Tmesis | separation of parts of compound words |
| Transferred Epithet | attribute some characteristic of something to another closely related to it |
| Word Picture | words arranged in such a way to create a visual image |
