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- ALLITERATION
- The repitition of the initial consonent in adjacent words.
- ANALOGY
- Similarity in some respects between two things that are otherwise dissimilar
- ANAPHORA
- Repitition of successive phrases changing one or more words. Of the people; by the people; for the people
- ANTITHESIS
- Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel syntactic structure
- APOSTROPHE
- Direct address to an absent or dead person or personification of object
- APPOSITIVE
- A word or phrase that restates or modifies an immediatly proceeding nomial
- ARS GRATIS ARTIS
- Art for arts sake
- ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS
- Life is short, art is long (Socrates)
- ASSONANCE
- Repitition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables or words
- CHIASMUS
- When two main elements are reversed. Leader of kings; King of leaders
- DICHOTOMY
- Two parts. Body and Soul
- DIRECT ADDRESS
- Directly address the reader or audience
- HYPERBOLE
- Use of exaggerated terms for purpose of emphasis or extreme effect
- JUXTAPOSITION
- Placement of the same word either right next to or very close to the first word. Mary liked school. School was fun
- LITOTES
- Deliberate use of understatement to enhance impact of verbal statement
- METAPHOR
- Implied comparison between things that have a common element, distinguished from a similie that employes an explicit comparison
- METONYMY
- Substitution for an attributed or suggestive word for a concept
- OXYMORON
- Two ideas that are juxtaposed. Sweet sorrow, Jumbo shrimp
- PARRALLELISM
- Similarity of structure in a pair of related words phrases or clauses
- PATHETIC FALLACY
- Giving human emotions to inanimate objects
- PATHOS
- Feeling of sympathy or sorrow
- PERSONIFICATION
- Investing inanimate objects with human qualities
- SENTENTIAE
- An adage or aphorism
- SIMILE
- Using like or as
- SYNEDOCHE
- Figure of speech in which part of something stands for a whole
- TEMPUS EDAX OMNIA
- We all cannot do everything
- UBI SUNT
- Where are those who were before us?