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a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
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a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form
Ex.“Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You.”
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the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
Ex. suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. |
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an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn
Ex. All dogs have four legs. Rover is a dog. Rover has four legs. |
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a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses
Ex. With weeping eyes and hearts. |
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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
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| the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they |
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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).
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| emphasizes the last word(s) of a series of sentences or phrases for memorable, rhythmic, and/or dramatic effect. |
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| an effective figure in swaying the opinions of a crowd" because of "its insistent repetition of an idea in the same |
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| the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g.,they arrived one after the other in succession ). |
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