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| Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. |
| Apostrophe | A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific person, group, or thing. |
| Anadiplosis | A "doubling back", repetition of the word at the end of a clause at the beginning of the next. |
| Personification | Attribution of a personality to inanimate things. |
| Enjambment | An overflow of a phrase into the next line, creating a feeling of suspense. |
| Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions. |
| Aposeiopesis | A form of ellipse where the speaker comes to a sudden halt, overcome by emotion. |
| Metaphor | Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature, yet which have something in common. |
| Metonomy | Using a closely related object as a substitute for the object or idea in mind. |
| Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. |
| Simile | An explicit comparison, usually using "like", "as", or "than" between two things of unlike nature yet that have something in common. |
| Chiasmus | ABBA word order. |
| Litotes | Dramatic understatement by denying the contrary of the thing affirmed. |
| Hyperbaton | Separation of words that belong together. |
| Onomatopoeia | Using words that sound like they mean. |
| Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of phrases, clauses, or sentences. |
| Graphic Word Order | An arrangement of words that echoes the action taking place. |
| Synchesis | ABAB word order. |
| Golden Line | Interlocked word order in which a verb is positioned in the middle of noun adjective pairs in ABAB word order in a line of verse. |
| Tmesis | A separation into two parts into two parts of a word usually written as one. |
