List of figures of speech
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
adornment, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, beauties, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, colors, colors of rhetoric, conversion, ecphonesis, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exclamation, figure, fine writing, floridity, floridness, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, frill, gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, inversion, irony, litotes, lushness, luxuriance, malapropism, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, ornamentation, oxymoron, paregmenon, parenthesis, periphrasis, personification, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, purple patches, regression, repetition, sarcasm, simile, similitude, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce, synecdoche, zeugma
