| A | B |
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| Anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| Transferred Epithet | a description transferred from the word to which it strictly applies |
| Antithesis | opposition or contrast of words or ideas |
| Aposiopesis | a breaking off before the close of a sentence |
| Apostrophe | anaddressing of some person or object |
| Asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions |
| Chiasmus | ABBA word order |
| Ellipsis | omission or one or more words which are obviously understood (oftne ago, dico, facio, loquor, and sum) |
| Euphemism | Substitution of an agreeable word for a harsh one |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same letter or sound |
| Euphony | effect produced by words or sounds to please the ear |
| Hendiadys | expression of an idea by means of two nouns joined by a conjunction |
| Hyberbaton | a violent displacement of words |
| Hyperbole | rhetorical exaggeration |
| Hysteron Proteron | reveral of the natural order |
| Irony | Use of humor or sarcasm which states an apparent fact, intended to |
| Litotes | understatement |
| Metaphor | an implied comparison |
| Metonymy | the substitution of one word for another |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words of which the sound suggests the sense |
| Oxymoron | use of words contradictory to each other |
| Personification | attribution of the element of personality to an impersonal thing |
| Pleonasm | use of superfluous words or phrases |
| Polysyndeton | Use of unnecessary conjunctions |
| Prolepsis | use of a word before it is logically appropriate |
| Simile | an explicit comparison |
| Synchysis | interlocking word order |
| Synecdoche | part for the whole |
| Tmesis | separation of the parts of a compound word |
| Zeugma | junctions of two words with a modifying word which applys to only one of them |
| Anastrophe | inversion of the usual order of words |
