Telling part of the truth while deliberately hiding the whole truth. Lying by omission.

eg. Does your dog bite? -- No. -- * dog bites * -- I thought you said your dog didn't bite! -- That's not my dog.

a commentary revealing the meaning of the work. (an explanation)

-- kinda like a close reading... --

eg. the meaning of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was to shed light on the issue of Global Warming

an erroneous use of an analogy where two things are compared but don't have enough in common to be a valid analogy

eg. Dumbledore is like Jason Buczyna

Sentence consisting of 3 or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions

eg. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it.

Reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then complement) order of elements in a sentence or phrase

Usually, the elements that appears first is emphasized more than the subject

eg. Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in ills to top Macbeth

eg. Confused, are we?

Mondegreen

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Malepropism

a word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard.

eg. They hae slain the Earl o' Murray

and laid him on the green

-- the misinterpretation: they hae slain the Earl o' Murray and Lady Mondegreen