Literary terms : Alliosis to Synecdoche

physical object embody general idea (PEN is mightier than the SWORD)

Metonymy

repetition initial consonant in multiple words (buckets of big blueberries)

Alliteration

repetition of vowel (refresh, zest)

Assonance

alternatives (either with us or against us)

Alliosis

repetition beginning clauses (we shall, we shall, we shall)

Anaphora

repetition concluding word (people, people, people)

Epistrophe

repeating first word at end of same clause (king is dead, long live the king!)

Epanalepsis

repeating last word at beginning of next clause (opened a café, a café that ruined her financially)

Anadiplosis

similar patterns (people, people, people)

Parallelism

contrary ideas (Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it.)

Antithesis

inverted word order (One win does not a champion make.)

Anastrophe

taking parallelism and inside out, "crisscross" pattern (By day they frolic, and they dance by night.)

Chiasmus

omit word implied by previous clause (bought the shoes, not the dress)

Ellipsis

no conjunctions, simple (Been there. Done that.)

Asyndeton

something is something else (Love is a battlefield)

Metaphor

contradiction that oddly makes sense (Without laws we can have no freedom)

Oxymoron (paradox)

Understatement (somewhat worried when psycho ran toward me with a chainsaw)

Meiosis

type of meiosis, negative statement (Einstein is not a bad mathmetician)

Litotes

part of a physical object represent the whole object (All hands on deck!)

Synecdoche

address someone or abstraction not physically present (Table, you have given us so many great times)

Apostrophe

rhetorical question provokes thought (how many deaths will it take till we know that too many people have died?)

Erotema

unexpected twist in meaning of words

Tropes

word order over meaning

Schemes