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| Allegory | Prolonged metaphor, extended use of person or object to represent concept outside the literal narrative. |
| Alliteration | repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in successive words |
| Anaphora | repetition of words or phrases |
| Anastrophe | reversal of normal word order |
| Aposiopesis | Dramatic mid sentence interruption |
| Apstrophe | Address to person or thing not present |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel or syllable sounds in successive words |
| Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions one or more |
| Caesura | Pause between words occuring w/i a metrical foot |
| Chiasmus | Arrangement of words or phrases in oppositional order ABBA |
| Dactyl | metrical foot long short short |
| Diaeresis | Pause between words coinciding withe the end of a metrical foot |
| Diastole | Lengthening of an ordinarily short vowel |
| Ecphrasis | digression from main narrative sometimes describing a painting etc |
| Elision | Suppression on contraction of a vowel or dipthong |
| Ellipsis | omission of one or more words of a sentence but easily understood from context |
| Enjambement | Delay of final word or phrase of a sentence to the beginning of the following line |
| Framing | enclosure of a line by placing two closely connected words at the beginning and end |
| Golden Line | Symmetrical arrangement ofVerb in the middle, with adjectives preceeding, nouns following |
| Hendiadys | two nouns connected by conjunction instead of one modified noun for equal prominence |
| Hiatus | lack of elision where it would normally occur |
| Hyperbole | emphatic overstatement |
| Hypermetric Line | extra syllable at end which ellides with 1st syllable of following line |
| Hysteron Proteron | description of events in reversed logical order |
| Ictus | verse accent or beat |
| Synchysis | Interlocking word order ABAB |
| Irony | use of language with a meaning opposite that is suggested by context |
| Litotes | deliberate understatement |
| Metaphor | implied comparison, |
| Metonymy | imagery in which one word, generally a noun, is used to suggest another with which it is closely related |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words whose sounds suggest meaning |
| Personification | imagery by which human traits are given to non human objects etc |
| Polysyndeton | use of greater number of conjunctions than usual or necessary |
| Praetertio | Suggesting that one will pass over a topic then go on with it |
| Prolepsis | attribution of some characteristic to a person etc before is is logically appropriate |
| Rehetorical Question | A posed question which expects no answer |
| Simile | explicit comparison often intro'd by ut, velut, qualis, ceu or similis |
| Spondee | metrical foot - long long |
| Syncope | Omission of a short, unaccented vowel, |
| Synecdoche | a type of metonymy in which a part of something is used in place of the whole |
| Synizesis | running together or contraction of ttwo vowels into a single syllable |
| Systole | shortening of a vowel |
| Tmesis | separation of a compound word usually for metrical convenience |
| Transferred Epithet | use of an adjective with a noun when it properly belongs to another |
| Tricolon Crescens | Climatic series of three or more |
| Word picture | words of a phrase are arranged in an order that visually suggest the image being described |
| Zeugma | use of single word with a pair of others when it logically applies to only one of them/or both in different ways |
