| A | B |
|---|
| abstract | hard to understand; apart from concrete |
| alliteration | two or more words with the same initial sound |
| ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
| bathos | anticlimax; triteness or triviality in style; sentimentally |
| epithet | an abusive word or phase |
| malapropism | ridiculous misuse of words, especially by confusion of words that are similar in sound |
| metaphor | the application of a word or phrase to an object or concept that it does not literally denote, in order to suggest a comparison with another or concept |
| onomonopia | formation words in imitation of actual sounds; the use of words who's sound suggests the sense |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a particular phrasing of words produces an effect by seeming self-contradictions |
| panegyric | an oration, discourse or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy |
| paradigm | example of pattern; a set of forms of grammar all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of inflected forms based on a single stem |
| polyglot | knowing many or several languages; containing, composed of, or in several languages; a confusions languages |
| semantics | the study of |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using the words "like" or "as" |
| threnody | a poem, speech, or slang of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song |
