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| alliteration | a succession of two or more wors with repetition of the same sound |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are understood but must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| chiasmus | the arrangement of pairs of words in opposite order |
| assonance | the close recurrence of similar sounds |
| hyperbole | rhetorical exaggeration |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whiose sound suggests its meaning |
| personification | the treatment of inanimate things as if endowed with human attributes |
| anaphora | the pepetition of the same word or word order at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases |
| anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words for rhetorical effect |
| aposiopesis | the abrupt and deliberate pause in a sentence |
| asyndeton | the omission of the conjunctions in a closely related series |
| euphemism | the use of a mild or agreeable expression in place of an unpleasant one |
| hendiadys | the use of two nouns connected by a conjunction in the sense of a noun modified by an adjective or a genitive |
| hysteron-proteron | the reversal of the natual order of ideas |
| litotes | a double negative |
| metaphor | the use of a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or idea in place of another, to suggest a likeness or ananlogy between them |
| metonymy | the use of one word in place of another which it suggests |
| oxymoron | the combination of apparently contradictory words in a single expression |
| polysyndeton | the use of unnecessary conjunction |
| prolepsis | the use of a word before the action makes it logically appropriate |
| simile | an expressed comparison introduced by a word such as similis, qualis, velut |
| synchysis | interloked order(a, b, a, b) |
| syncope | the loss of letters within a word |
| synecdoche | the use of the part for the whole |
| tmesis | the separtion of two parts of a compound word |
| zeugma | a condesed expression in which one word, usually a verb, is made to stand for two or more ideas |
