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| an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances |
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| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
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| Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended; for example, He is a man of loyalty—loyalty always firm. |
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| Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of 2 or more successive verses |
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| Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) |
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| a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. |
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| A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure |
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| The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition. |
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| The power or ability to attract or interest |
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| Relating to or being in opposition |
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| Three way transaction between the writer, reader, and text |
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| the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public |
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| the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning |
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| Reasoning from the general to the particular |
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| the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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| Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences |
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| a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed. |
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| the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences |
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| boosting ones credibility |
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| the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. |
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| the introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc. |
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| speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
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| Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
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| The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence rather than direct observation |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
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| a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers. |
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| A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
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| A narrator that knows everything that is going on |
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| Conjoining contradictory terms |
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| A statement that contradicts itself |
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| Similar sentence structure, repeated syntax/grammatical structure |
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| a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense |
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| Witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special |
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