| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | repetition of sound at the beginning of words |
| anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of clauses |
| asyndeton | lack of connectives |
| chiasmus | ABBA word order |
| ellipsis | omission of words (especially est) |
| litotes | Deliberate understatement, double negative |
| metonymy | the substitution of one word for a closely related one |
| onomatopoeia | word sounds like what it means |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| polysyndeton | many connectors such as -que and et |
| synchysis | ABAB word order |
| synecdoche | part for the whole |
| zeugma | Single word with a pair of others when the single word logically applies to only one |
| enjambment | Delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence to the beginning of the following line |
| hyperbaton | Words that naturally belong to one another are separated for emphasis or effect |
