stylistic device
technique used to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling to a literal message, including assonance, consonance and alliteration
repetition
rhetorical device
vulgarism
expression considered non-standard or characteristic of uneducated speech or writing
catalectic
term in the study of metre
enallage
figure of speech used to refer to the use of tense, form, or person for a grammatically incorrect counterpart
auxesis
figure of speech
clausula
rhythmic figure used to add finesse and finality to the end of a sentence or phrase
simile
figure of speech indicating a similarity explicitly,e.g. using "like" or "as", contrasting to metaphor in which the similarity is implicit, e.g. of the form "A is B"
paraphrase
restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words
rhetorical question
figure of speech in the form of a question, asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer
dysphemism
expression with connotations that are offensive either about the subject matter or to the audience, or both
epistrophe
stylistic device
epistrophe
stylistic device
metalepsis
figure of speech
hendiadys
conjunction for emphasis
juxtaposition
act or instance of placing two elements side by side
animal epithet
person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal
Tautology
a statement with unnecessary repetition of meaning, using different words
mic drop
gesture of dropping a microphone
distinction
a figure of speech through which the act of cognition is designated, reflecting the objective difference between real objects and elements of consciousness; In formal logic, one of the logical devices that can be used instead of defining
irony
rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is an incongruity between the literal and the implied meaning
macaronic language
text using a mixture of languages
sarcasm
sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt
antonomasia
epithet or phrase takes the place of a proper name
punch line
third and final part of the typical joke structure
circumlocution
ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech
circumlocution
ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech
climax
figure of speech
apophasis
stating something by saying the opposite
conceit
extended rhetorical device
Suspension
rhetoric
homophony
stylistic device, a variety of homonymy denoting the relationship between two different words with the same pronunciation
euphemism
innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or which the speaker wants to hide
aphorism
figure of speech
archaism
outdated word rarely used
tongue-twister
phrase that is intentionally difficult to articulate properly
Jack of all trades, master of none
figure of speech
litotes
figure of speech
anaphora
rhetoric
chiasmus
reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases, used as a rhetorical figure
chiasmus
reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases, used as a rhetorical figure
elision
omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase
dislocation
type of sentence structure
trope
use of figurative language – via word, phrase, or even an image – for artistic effect
Hypotyposis
figure of speech
diastole
lengthening of a word to fit poetic meter
pathetic fallacy
attribution of human emotion and conduct to non-human things