Rhetorical Figures
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- alliteration
- repetition of the same letter at the beginning of successive words or syllables
- anaphora
- repetition of a word, for emphasis, at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses
- simile
- expressed comparison using " like" or "as"
- anastrophe
- inversion of the usual order of words (grammatical)
- aposiopesis
- an abrupt pause for rhetorical effect
- asyndeton
- omission of conjunctions where one would normally expect them
- chiasmus
- arrangement of pairs of words in crisscross order
- hendiadys
- use of two nouns connected by "et" instead of a single modified noun
- hyperbole
- exaggeration for rhetorical effect
- ellipsis
- omission of words necessary to the grammatical structure of the sentence, easily supplied from the context
- personification
- attributing human characteristics to inanimate things
- prolepsis
- the use of a word sooner than is logically appropriate
- paronomasia
- word play using similar sounding words
- meiosis
- understatment for ironic effect
- commoratio
- repeating the same idea but in different words, a restatement
- embolalia
- well, ugh, you know, how sometimes you throw in some words while you are, like, organizing your thoughts
- apocope
- dropping a letter at the end of the word
- triad
- use of group of three elements
- syllepsis
- the use of a word with two others where each word is understood differently
- eusystolism
- substitution of initials for complete words as a form of euphemism