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similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
"He tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable." |
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the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.
"Through studious, he was popular; though argumentative, he was modest..." |
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Inversion of the natural or usual word order.
"Backward run the sentences, till reels the mind." |
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the insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence.
"But wherein any man is bold-I am speaking foolishly-I also am bold..." |
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placing side by side two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.
"john morgan, the president of the sons of the republic, could not be reached by phone." |
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deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context.
"And he to England shall along with you." |
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deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses.
"I came, I saw, I conquered." |
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Omission of conjunctions between between single words or phrases.
"and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" |
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deliberate understatement
"writing is indeed no unpleasing occupation." |
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deliberate use of many conjunctions.
"this year i am taking physics and biology and history and spanish!" |
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the repitition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.
"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king" |
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repitition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.
"A sable, silent, solemn forest stood." |
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repitition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
"It is a luxury, it is a privilage, it is an indulgence for those who are at their ease" |
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repitition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.
"I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond!" |
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repitition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.
"one should eat to live, not live to eat." |
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reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses
"It is hard to make money, but to spend it is easy" |
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repition of words derived from the same root
"few are chosen because few choose to be chosen." |
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repitition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause.
"Business forms are as various as people forms" |
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repitition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
"the crime was common, common be the pain." |
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arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance
"Let a man acknowledge obligations to his family, his country, and his god." |
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a seemingly contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth
"art is a form of lying in order to tell the truth." |
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subsitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant
"crown for royalty, wealth for rich people, bottle for wine, pen for writers" |
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repitition of a word in two different senses.
"Your argument is sound, nothing but sound." |
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use of words alike in sound but different in meaning
"Casting my perils before swains." |
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use of a word understoof different in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs.
"the ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen." |
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| an implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common |
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| an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common (like or as) |
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a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole
"bread for food, sail for ship, hands for helpers, silver for money" |
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the substitution of one part of speech for another.
"the thunder would not peace at my bidding" |
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substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name
"disneys polyanna is looking more like an aging loolita now." |
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investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities
"the ground thirsts for rain." |
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exaggeration for emphasis
"his eloquence would split rocks" |
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deliberate understatement
"to write is indeed no unpleasing emply |
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exaggeration for emphasis
"his eloquence would split rocks" |
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asking a question not for an answer but to assert or deny something obliquely
"How can you possibly make a good wine from poor grapes?" |
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use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word
"neither the union nor anyone else could persuade a single soul to move into this "model facility"' |
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use of words whose sound echoes the sense.
"boom!" |
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the yoking of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory
"sweet pain, cheerful pessimist" |
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