| A | B |
| Metonymy | The substitution of one word for another which it suggests. |
| Hyperbaton | Distanced placement of two words that ought to be understood and placed together. |
| Enallage | Transferred epithet. |
| Synchesis | Interlocking word order: abAB. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound at the beginnings of words |
| Onomatopoeia | When the sound of a word suggests its meaning. |
| Hendiadys | The expression of an idea by means of two connected nouns rather than by a noun and adjective. |