| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | repetition of a letter/sound |
| anaphora | repetition of a word/words especially at the beginning of successive clauses |
| anastrophe | inversion of usual word order |
| antithesis | opposition or contrast of words or ideas |
| apostrophe | addressing someone/something who is not present |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions |
| chiasmus | ABBA word order |
| ellipsis | omission of a word/words that is understood but critical grammatically |
| euphemism | substitution of a word/words that is more pleasant for one that is disagreeable |
| hendiadys | expression of an idea by 2 nouns and a conjunction instead of a noun-adjective pair |
| hyperbaton | violent displacement of words |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| hysteron proteron | reversal of the natural order of events |
| irony | humor or sarcasm which states an apparent fact with the intention of expressing the opposite |
| litotes | understatement or double negative |
| metaphor | comparison |
| metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggests |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that sound like what they mean |
| preterition | an apparent omission by which a speaker pretends to pass over what he really emphasizes |
| pleonasm | use of superfluous words |
| polysyndeton | use of unnecessary conjunctions |
| prolepsis=anticipation | use of a word (modifier) before it is logically appropriate |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| synchesis | ABAB word order |
| synecdoche | one word (part) substituted for another (whole) |
| tmesis | separation of parts of compound words |
| transferred epithet | epithet transferred from the word with which it logically belongs to another connected word |
| zeugma | junction of two words with a governing word that strictly makes sense only with one of them |
