To place a noun or noun phrase side by side, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.
What is APPOSITION
100
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is A LITOTE
100
Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
What is ASSONANCE
100
The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
What is ANADIPLOSIS
100
I am Sam, Sam I am AND "The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it." ARE EXAMPLES OF
What is ANADIPLOSIS
200
An apparent contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth.
What is A PARADOX
200
The deliberate omission of a word or words readily implied by the context.
What is AN ELLIPSIS
200
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty")
What is METEONOMY
200
A substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name.
What is ANTONOMASIA
200
Men sell wedding bells IS AN EXAMPLE OF
What is ASSONANCE
300
A repetition of the initial or medial consonant sounds in two or more words.
What is ALLITERATION
300
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole for a part
What is A SYNEDOCHE
300
The repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order
What is ANTIMETABOLE
300
Rhetorical style for writing sentences that uses several conjunctions especially where some could be omitted.
What is POLYSYNDETON
300
"Oh, you think you're so special because you get to play Picture Pages up there? Well, my five year old daughter could do that and let me tell you, she's not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed." IS AN EXAMPLE OF
What is LITOTES
400
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination:
What is A CLIMAX
400
An implied comparison between two things of unlike nature.
What is A METAPHOR
400
A figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb, and object is changed. For example, the usual English order of subject, object and verb might be changed to object-subject-verb.
What is ANASTROPHE
400
Uses no conjunctions and separates the terms of the list with commas. The principal effect is to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence.
What is AN ASYNDETON
400
The sky weeps; The wind whispered through dry grass; The flowers danced in the gentle breeze; Time and tide waits for none.
What is PERSONIFICATION
500
A figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, of similar length.
What is AN ISOCOLON
500
The rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, as in describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual.
What is METEONOMY
500
A figure of speech where words that derive from the same root are repeated to increase emphasis.
What is POLYPTOTON
500
A figure of speech defined by the repetition of the initial word (or words) of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence.[1] The beginning and the end are the two positions of stronger emphasis in a sentence; so, by having the same phrase in both places, the speaker calls special attention to it.
What is AN EPANALEPSIS
500
loveli-er more lovely
friendli-er more friendly
happi-er more happy