One Flashcards
Alliteration
Wherat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.
Polyptoton
Use of one word as different parts of speech for different grammar forms.
Wicked and wickedness. If the same word sometimes it’s called antanaclasis.
Antithesis
Opposites for contrasting effect.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. 
Merism
Referencing one thing via enumeration of its parts. 
Blazon
Using metaphors and poetry to praise a woman and describe distinct body parts.
Synaesthesia
When one sense is described in terms of another.
Music that stings to the ear
Aposiopesis
A sentence deliberately left unfinished, ending supplied by audiences imagination, impression of unwillingness or inability to continue.
I will have such revenge on you both, that the world shall… I will do such things… What they are, yet I know not.
Hyperbaton
Changing the logical order of words in a sentence.
Stonewalls tonight in prison make. The Yoda version.
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of the preceding clause.
We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope, and hope maketh man not ashamed.

Allusion
Allude to something well known so as not to go on at great length.
Accismus
Rhetorical refusal of something someone actually wants. Can’t reach grapes: Didn’t want sour grapes anyway.
Adynaton
Hyperbolic metaphor to show its impossible. When pigs fly.
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements
Bdelygmia
A rhetorical insult—the more elaborate the better.
Meiosis
Understated. Whereas exaggeration is auxesis.
