| A | B |
|---|
| Metaphor | creation of an image with no like or as |
| Simile | creation of an image with like or as |
| Anastrophe | inversion of word order |
| Apostrophe | direct address of person or thing |
| Apposition | adding a coordinate element |
| Antithesis | contrasting ideas |
| Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse order eat to live not live to eat |
| Ellipsis | omission of word(s) implied |
| Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions |
| Polysyndeton | too many conjunctions |
| Parenthesis | interrupation of flow in a sentence |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonants |
| Assonance | rhyming or harmony of vowels |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words or sounds to imitate sound effects |
| Anaphora | repetition of words for effect |
| Epistrophe | repetition of same word(s) at end of clauses |
| Anadiplosis | repetition of last word of one clause as first word of next |
| Paralipsis | pretending to pass over something, but mentioning it |
| Climax | high point |
| Polyptoton | repetition of words derived from same root = blood bleeds |
| Synecdoche | part for the whole |
| Metonymy | substitution of some attribute for person, object |
| Puns | play on words |
| Syllepsis | use of a word understood differently in 2 different contexts |
| Chiasmus | criss-cross |
| Zeugma | use of a word in 2 different contexts where it only fits in one |
| Antonomasia | call someone by another,descriptive name |
| Bathos | anticlimax |
| rhetorical question | asking a question to make a point |
| Personification | give inanimate object human characteristics |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Litotes | understatment |
| Irony | use of a word to convey opposite meaning |
| Oxymoron | a linking of an adjective and noun which contradict each other |
| Paradox | a contradictory situation |
