| A | B |
|---|
| Alliteration | deliberate repetition of sounds |
| Apostrophe | address to some person or thing not present |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel or syllable osound in succcessive words |
| Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions |
| Chiasmus | arrangment of words in ABBA order |
| Elipsis | Omission of one or more words necessary to the sentence |
| Golden Line | a form of interlocked word order, verb in middle, adjectives preceeding, nouns following |
| Hendiadys | use of two nouonds connected by a conjunction istead of one modiefied nown |
| Interlocked word order (synchesis) | ABAB pattern |
| Litotes | deliberate understatement |
| Metonymy | type of imagery in which one word suggests another to which it is closely related |
| Onomatopieia | use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning |
| Polysyndeton | use of a greater number of conjunctions than usual or necessary. |
| Synecdoche | type of metonymy in which the part stands for the whole |
| Tmesis | separation of a compound word |
| Transferred epithet | application of an adjective to one noun when it should apply ot another |
| Tricolon crescens | a climactic series of three examples each more intense than the preceeding |
| Zeugma | use of a single word with a pair of others when it logically applies to only one |
