rhetoricals

Allegory

an extended metaphor; prolonged use of an image to express meaning

Alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words

Anaphora

repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clause

Anastrophe

inversion of usual word order

Aposiopesis

breaking off in the middle of a sentence

Apostrophe

sudden turn to address a person or object who is present/absent

Asyndeton

omission of conjunctions

Chiasmus

an abba arrangement of words; used with pairs of nouns/adjectives

Ecphrasis

extended description of a work of art or scene of nature

Ellipsis

omission of words easily understood in context

Enjambment

continuation of a clause beyond the end of one line and into the beginning of the next

Golden line

interlocking word order with a verb in the middle; synchesis

Hendiadys

expressing a single idea with two nouns joined by a conjunction

Hyperbaton

distortion of normal word order

Hyperbole

exaggeration

Hysteron proteron

reversal of the natural order of events

Synchesis

interlocking word order; ABAB order often used with pairs of nouns and adjectives

Litotes

use of a negative or double negative to express something positive

Metaphor

expression of meaning through another image

Metonymy

the use of one noun or image to suggest another

Onomatopoeia

use of words that sound like their meaning

Personification

attribution of human characteristics to something not human

Pleonasm

the use of superfluous(unnecessary) words to enrich the thought

Polysyndeton

use of more conjunctions than needed

Simile

explicit comparison using words like or as(common with sicut, similis, velut, qualis, quam)

Synecdoche

use of the part to express the whole

Tmesis

separation of a compound word into two parts

Enallage

transferred epithet; transfer of an adjective from its proper object to a related object