Accumulation
The wind blows south, then returns to the north, round and round goes the wind, on its rounds it circulates.
Accumulation is a literary device that puts together scattered points of similar words to generate a common and deeper feeling in writing. It is a stylistic device used by writers to produce the effect of amplification.
Adynaton
I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his cheek.
hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Amblysia
Euphemistic or reduced language to prepare for the announcement of something tragic
Amphiboly
She saw a man on a hill with a telescope
An ambiguity in the meaning of a sentence caused by grammatical looseness to produce a double meaning.
Anachronism
The misplacement of an action, character, phrase, or setting in time. Anachronisms may be used deliberately to distance events and to underline a universal verisimilitude and timelessness.
Anacoluthon
The good stuff – think about it.
A sentence that is begun in one way, but then ended in a different way, usually with a hyphen linking two disparate clauses. create a stream-of-consciousness style in which a character's thoughts flit from one idea to the next
Anadiplosis
Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task
The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.
Analogue
– A word or thing that is similar or parallel to another, to the point that most salient features are alike
Anaphora
Anastrophe
Anecdote
Anesis
A rhetorical device in which a concluding sentence, clause, or phrase is used to deliberately diminish or discredit the previous statements.
Antanaclasis
Anthropomorphism
Anthimeria
Antipophora
– A character asks a question of themself, and then answers by themself.
Antimetabole
– The repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.
Antonomasia
– The substitution of a proper noun for an epithet, title, occupation associated with that object or person.
Aphorism
Aposiopesis
like opp of anacoluthon
Apostrophe
Archaism
Assonance
Asyndeton
Aside
Bathos
Bathetic
Black Comedy
Blank verse
Blazon
Bombast
Burlesque
Cacophony
Caesura
Catachresis
The misapplication of a word or metaphor, particularly when used in a mixed metaphor.
Catalexis
Catharsis
Chiasmus
A reversal of grammatical structure in subsequent clauses or phrases with different words.
Circumlocution
Cliche
Conceit
Connotation
Consonance
Couplet
Defamilarisation
The modification of a reader’s habitual perceptions by drawing attention to the artifice of the text, or the peculiarities of the writing itself.
Denotation
The most literal and limited meaning of a word, regardless of any additional feelings or connotations that have evolved for it.
Depitation
Dissonance
Double entendre
Dramatic Irony
Dysphemism
Ecphonema
Ekphrasis
Elegy
Elision
Ellipsis
Enjambment
Epanados
Epanalepsis
Epexegesis
Epideictic oratory
Epistrophe
Epitasis
Epizeuxis
Euphemism
Euphony
Farce
Feminine rhyme
Flyting
Foreshadowing
Free Verse
Hamartia
Hemistich
Hendiadys
Homonym
Homophone
Hubris
Hypallage
Hyperbaton
Hyperbole
Hypocorism
Hypostatisation
Hypotyposis
Hypozeuxis
Idiom
Imagery
Invective
Inversion
Invocation
Irony
Isocolon
Jargon
Kenning
Light Rhyme
Litotes
Malapropism
Masculine Rhyme