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Figure of Speech[edit]

Accismus
Accumulatio
Acronym
Acrostic
Adnomination
Adynaton
Aleatoricism
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Anacoenosis
Anacoluthon
Anadiplosis
Anagram
Analogy
Ananym
Anaphora (rhetoric)
Anapodoton
Anastrophe
Antanaclasis
Anthimeria
Anthropomorphism
Antimetabole
Antithesis
Antonomasia
Aphorism
Aphorismus
Apologia
Apophasis
Aporia
Aposiopesis
Apostrophe (figure of speech)
Apposition
Aptronym
Archaism
Assonance
Asteismus
Asyndeton
Auto-antonym
Autogram
Auxesis (figure of speech)
Backronym
Bathos
Brachyology
Burlesque metaphor
Bushism
Caesura
Catachresis
Cataphora
Chiasmus
Chinglish
Chronogram
Circumlocution
Classification (literature)
Cliché
Climax (figure of speech)
Congeries
Constrained writing
Conversion (word formation)
Diacope
Diathesis
Double negative
Dysphemism
Elision
Ellipsis
Ellipsis (linguistics)
Enallage
Engrish
Enjambment
Enthymeme
Epanalepsis
Epanodos
Epanorthosis
Epistrophe
Epizeuxis
Eponym
Eucatastrophe
Euphemism
Euphuism
Figure of speech
Flashforward
Glossary of rhetorical terms
Grandiloquence
Half rhyme
Hamartia
Hendiadys
Hendiatris
Holorime
Homeoptoton
Homeoteleuton
Homograph
Homonym
Homophone
Humour
Hypallage
Hyperbaton
Hyperbole
Hypocatastasis
Hypozeuxis
Hysteron proteron
Idiom
Innuendo
Internal rhyme
Invective
Irony
Isocolon
Kenning
Linguistic purism in English
Lipogram
List of forms of word play
Literary consonance
Litotes
MacGuffin
Malapropism
Meiosis (figure of speech)
Merism
Metalepsis
Metaphor
Metonymy
Mimesis
Mondegreen
Neologism
Non sequitur (literary device)
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Palindrome
Pangram
Par'hyponoian
Parable
Paradiastole
Paradox (literature)
Parallelism (rhetoric)
Paraprosdokian
Parenthesis (rhetoric)
Parody
Parrhesia
Pastiche
Pathetic fallacy
Pathos
Phonaesthetics
Phonetic reversal
Pleonasm
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
Procatalepsis
Proverb
Pseudonym
Pun
Quibble (plot device)
Rebus
Red herring
Repetition (rhetorical device)
Rhetorical device
Rhetorical operations
Rhetorical question
Rhythm
Sarcasm
Satire
Scheme (linguistics)
Sibilant
Simile
Slang
Snowclone
Sobriquet
Solecism
Spoonerism
Stylistic device
Superlative
Syllogism
Symploce
Synchysis
Syncope (phonology)
Synecdoche
Synesis
Synesthesia
Synonymia
Tautogram
Tautology (rhetoric)
Theme (narrative)
Tmesis
Trope (literature)
Truism
Understatement
Verbosity
Wit
Word play
Zeugma