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auxesis
building upon ideas, usually in groups of threes
simile
a phrase that uses like or as to compare two things
alliteration
where the same letter or sound is repeated at the beginning of words in a line or sentence
olfactory imagery
imagery that relates to smell
gustatory imagery
imagery that relates to taste
elegy
lament for the dead
synecdoche
where a part of the subject represents the whole
synecdoche example
i hired 20 hands
metonym
where a larger concept is represented by an object or noun related to it
metonym example
the crown
kinesthetic imagery
imagery related to movement or feeling
tricolon
occurring in threes/groups of three
syntax
the word order
circumvent
to talk around something
isocolon
occurring in twos or fours
parenthesis
use of brackets or double dashes
parallelism
repetition of syntax or grammatical structure
caesura
a pause
hyperbaton
manipulation of the normal word order
epizeugma
placing the key verb at the end of the sentence
anadiplosis
using the same word that ends the last phrase to begin the next one
ploce
repeated single word
epistrophe
repeated endings
anaphora
repeated beginnings
synonymia
use of synonyms
syntheton
pairs of words joined by an “and”
antithesis
the use of two directly opposing ideas
double entendre
a phrase with two meanings, usually with sexual connotations or a pun
antanaclasis
repeated word where the second use means something different
polyptoton
repeating a word in a different context to the first use
sibilance
repeated s or z (hissing) sounds
assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
consonance
repetition of consonant sounds
dental alliteration
repetition of d and t sounds
fricative alliteration
repetition of v and f sounds
plosive alliteration
repetition of p, b, g and k sounds
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