rhetorical devices :(

Anthimeria

turning a word from one part of speech to another... ex: "Chill" (was a noun, now is a verb)

Antistrophe, Epistrophe

repitition at the end of sentances

Antithesis

juxaposes opposing ideas/phrases... ex: "One small step for man"

Apophasis

bringing up the subject by denying that you're bringing it up

Paralipsis

emphasize something by pretending to pass over it... ex: "and i won't even mention..."

Aporia

pretends not to know something to prove a point... ex: "Can I go to the bathroom? I don't know, can you?"

Cacaphony

combination of discordant tones that don't sound good

Euphony

combination of words that sounds good

Congeries

creating a list, usually to emphasize a point or irony... ex: "Apart from xxx, they were quite miserable."

Deux Ex Machina

a plot device where an impossible situation is solved by the presense of an unmet character or event... ex: Lord of the Flies ending

Double entendre

a word with two meanings... ex: "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man" (serious and dead)

Dysphemism

using an offensive term instead of a neutral one... ex: "nerd" instead of "smart"

Ellipsis

omission of certain words or plot events to give readers the chance to fill in the blanks

Epigraph

quotation at the beginning of a book

Eutrepismus

stating your points in a numbered list... ex: Firstly, Secondly, etc

Hyperbaton

broad category of switching sentence structure that anastrophe falls under

Hypotaxi

adding connecting words to show readers what the relationship between two clauses is... ex: "because"

Parataxi

opposite of hypotaxi, no connecting words

Meiosis

understated to belittle or undermine a situation... ex: "a mere scratch"

Metanoia

when a writer deliberately takes back a statement they just made in order to re-state it... ex: "to help, or, at least, to do no harm."

Narrative voice

the voice from which a story in literature is told, unique style or tone of narrator

Non sequitur

statements that don't logically follow what preceeds them, for humor or dramatic effect

Paraprosdokian

a sentence with an unexpected ending... ex: "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."

Pathetic fallacy

personification where an author gives human EMOTIONS to an inanimate object

Polyptoton

repitition of two words that share the same root... ex: "Who shall watch the watchmen?"

Portmanteau

combination of two words and combine their meanings... ex: brunch!

Spoonerism

swap the sound of two or more words... ex: "runny babbit"

Synesthesia

blending two senses or using one to describe the other... ex: "The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black."

Syllepsis, Zeugma

word is used for two different things... ex: she broke her car and broke her heart